Mid Dorset and North Poole (UK Parliament constituency)

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Mid Dorset and North Poole County constituency

Mid Dorset and North Poole shown within Dorset, and Dorset shown within England
Created:	1997
MP:	Annette Brooke
Party:	Liberal Democrat
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Dorset
EP constituency:	South West England

Mid Dorset and North Poole is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 See also

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the north of Poole in the east, and extends into rural Dorset in the west. A surprise gain for the Liberal Democrats in 2001, it swung strongly in their favour in 2005.

In the 2006 boundary changes, the historic market town of Wimborne Minster became part of the constituency. For a brief time there was talk that the constituency would be renamed "Wimborne and Wareham" to acknowledge Wimborne now being the largest town in the constituency.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1997)
1997 — 2001: Christopher Fraser, Conservative
2001 — present: Annette Brooke, Liberal Democrat

[edit] Election results

General Election 2005: Mid Dorset and North Poole
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Annette Brooke	22,000	48.7	+6.7
	Conservative	Simon Hayes	16,518	36.6	−4.5
	Labour	Philip Murray	5,221	11.6	−3.9
	UK Independence	Avril King	1,420	3.1	+1.7
Majority			5,482	12.1
Turnout			45,159	68.5	+2.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+5.6

General Election 2001: Mid Dorset and North Poole
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Annette Brooke	18,358	42.0	+2.7
	Conservative	Christopher Fraser	17,974	41.1	+0.4
	Labour	James Selby Bennett	6,765	15.5	-0.3
	UK Independence	Jeff Mager	621	1.4	N/A
Majority			384	0.9
Turnout			43,718	65.6	-9.8
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

[edit] See also

List of Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset

Constituencies in South West England
Conservative	Bournemouth East \| Bournemouth West \| Bridgwater \| Christchurch \| Cotswold \| Devizes \| East Devon \| Forest of Dean \| North Dorset \| North Wiltshire \| Poole \| Salisbury \| South West Devon \| Tewkesbury \| Tiverton and Honiton \| Torridge and West Devon \| Totnes \| Wells \| West Dorset \| Westbury \| Weston-super-Mare \| Woodspring
Liberal Democrat	Bath \| Bristol West \| Cheltenham \| Falmouth and Camborne \| Mid Dorset and North Poole \| North Cornwall \| North Devon \| Northavon \| Somerton and Frome \| South East Cornwall \| St Ives \| Taunton \| Teignbridge \| Torbay \| Truro and St Austell \| Yeovil
Labour	Bristol East \| Bristol North West \| Bristol South \| Exeter \| Gloucester \| Kingswood \| North Swindon \| Plymouth Devonport \| Plymouth Sutton \| South Dorset \| South Swindon \| Stroud \| Wansdyke
South West European constituency: Conservative (3) \| UKIP (2) \| Liberal Democrats (1) \| Labour (1)