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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 .
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]
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]
Following significant population growth, largely due to its status as a market town, a local board was established in Wimborne Minster in 1892. [2] After the local board was succeeded by an urban district council in 1894, [3] [4] the new council established offices at Allendale House in Hanham Road.
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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.
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.
2019 Dorset Council election: Dorchester East (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Stella Jones* 1,337 : 52.4 : −11.2 : Liberal Democrats: Rory Major : 979 : 38.3 : −25.9 : Green: Kate Hebditch 825 32.3 New: Independents for Dorset: Katy Jones 571 22.4 New: Conservative: Angus Christopher 329 12.9 −4.9 Conservative ...