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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 .
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: Dorchester Poundbury (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Richard Biggs : 457 : 35.9 : Conservative: Peter Jonathon Stein 415 32.6 Independent: William Gibbons 273 21.4 Green: Tim Oram 73 5.7 Labour: Sinead McCarney 55 4.3 Majority Turnout: 46.20 Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
In the early 20th century, Shire Hall in Dorchester was the local facility for dispensing justice and the meeting place of Dorset County Council. [1] After deciding the Shire Hall was inadequate for their needs, county leaders chose to procure a new county headquarters: the site selected had previously been open land known as "Colliton Park" which had once been occupied by the monastic ...
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 ...
2019 Dorset Council election: Beacon (1 seat) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative: Jane Somper : 1,020 : 64.4 : Liberal Democrats: Alexandra Gale 423 26.7 Labour: Samuel Charles Skey 142 9.0 Majority 597 37.7 Turnout: 42.60 Conservative win (new seat)
Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. Throughout its existence, the council was based in Dorchester. Bournemouth and Poole were made independent from the county council in 1997 when their councils became unitary authorities.
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 ...