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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]
In the 1918 redistribution, the four Dorset constituencies were retained, but their boundaries were redrawn. East Dorset was reduced in area to about half its former size, with the northern part of the pre-1918 seat being transferred to North Dorset and the southern part to South Dorset. In the 1950 redistribution, this constituency disappeared.
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 .
BBC Channel Islands is the dedicated opt-out service for the Channel Islands. Although the BBC maintained a newsgathering presence on the Islands - expanded with the arrival of Radio Jersey and Radio Guernsey in 1982 - budgetary constraints had prevented the corporation from providing its own local TV news service to compete with the ...
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.
The Shaftesbury estate in East Dorset is the home base and centre of business of the Ashley-Coopers. In addition to St Giles House, the family owns a large estate, including over 9,000 acres (3,600 ha), along with property, land, and loughs , that establishes them as one of the wealthiest families in the United Kingdom.
Glassey contested East Dorset at the 1924 general election coming second behind the Conservative. [3] [full citation needed] The Liberals were not well organised nationally in 1924 and no longer had the uniting issue of Free Trade to provide an anti-Conservative focus as they had in 1923.