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Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority , being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council .
2019 Dorset Council election: Shaftesbury Town (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Derek Leslie Beer : 1,177 : 50.6 : Liberal Democrats: Tim Cook : 682 : 29.3 : Conservative: Julian Pritchard 480 20.6 Conservative: Alexander Edward Chase 381 16.4 Independent: Andrew Reginald Hollingshead 360 15.5 Independent: Peter David ...
2024 Dorset Council election: Dorchester Poundbury (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Richard Martin Biggs* 780 : 54.0 +18.1 : Conservative: Peter Jonathon Stein 449 31.1 −1.5 Labour: Nick Boothroyd 122 8.4 +4.1 Green: Len Herbert 93 6.4 +0.7 Turnout: 1,444 41.38 Liberal Democrats hold: Swing
2019 Dorset Council election: Radipole (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Peter Lawrence Fraser Barrow : 1,346 : 51.3 : Liberal Democrats: David Michael Gray : 1,234 : 47.0 : Conservative: Peter Dickenson 709 27.0 Conservative: John Twidale Ellis 671 25.6 Labour: Mark Duxbury 541 20.6 Labour: Grafton Alphonso Straker 62 2. ...
Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It covers all of the ceremonial county except for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole .
Bournemouth and Poole had both been unitary authorities since 1997, whilst Christchurch was a lower tier district council, with Dorset County Council providing county-level services in that borough. The way the changes were implemented was to create a new non-metropolitan district and a non-metropolitan county both called Bournemouth ...
The council was created on 1 April 2019, when Dorset County Council and five of its six district councils merged to form a unitary authority. A "shadow authority" was created in 2018 to oversee the transition, comprising all the existing district and county councillors representing the area of the new authority. [1]
2019 Dorset Council election: Dorchester West (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Andy Canning : 1,221 : 44.7 : Independent: Les Fry : 1,064 : 38.9 : Liberal Democrats: Janet Elizabeth Hewitt 973 35.6 Conservative: Gerald Duke 512 18.7 Green: Len Herbert 434 15.9 Conservative: Ian Francois Bernard Gosling 336 12.3 Labour ...