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2019 Dorset Council election: Colehill and Wimborne Minster East (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Janet Dover : 1,616 : 57.4 : Liberal Democrats: Maria Angela Roe : 1,073 : 38.1 : Conservative: KD Johnson 968 34.4 Conservative: David Geoffrey Lawson Packer 771 27.4 Green: Derek Baker 477 17.0 UKIP: Nick Wellstead 319 11. ...
The Bill Wilson House stands at the southeast corner of Village Street and Mad Tom Road in the center of East Dorset, and is one of the village's largest buildings. It is a rambling two-story wood-frame building, its front facing west toward Village Street, and three sections extending along Mad Tom Road to the east.
East Dorset was a local government district in Dorset, England.Its council met in Wimborne Minster between 2016 and 2019. [1] [2]The district (as Wimborne) was formed on 1 April 1974 by merging Wimborne Minster Urban District with Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District, plus the parish of St Leonards and St Ives transferred from the Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District in Hampshire. [3]
When the BBC introduced regional television news on 30 September 1957, viewers in the South West were initially served by a five-minute bulletin from Bristol shared with what would become the BBC West and BBC South regions. [2] For geographical reasons, the timeslot for regional news had to be shared with a bulletin for Wales.
Map showing the composition of East Dorset District Council as of the last election in 2015. Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in yellow and independents in grey. East Dorset District Council in Dorset , England existed from 1973 to 2019, when it was abolished and subsumed into Dorset Council .
For the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, which redrew the constituency map ahead of the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the Boundary Commission for England opted to retain the eight current constituencies in Dorset, with minor boundary changes to reflect changes to ward boundaries following the reorganisation of local government authorities within the county.
A meeting of leaders and chief executives of all nine of Dorset's local authorities followed on 12 October 2015, "to discuss options for the future of local government in the area". [11] That was followed by a series of public consultations and, ultimately, by statutory instruments for the reform of local government across Dorset, drawn up in ...
Prior to 2019, the non-metropolitan county of Dorset had a two-tier structure of local government, with Dorset County Council serving as the upper-tier authority, and the six district councils of Christchurch, East Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, West Dorset, and Weymouth and Portland serving as lower-tier authorities.