North Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
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North Dorset County constituency |
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North Dorset shown within Dorset, and Dorset shown within England | |
Created: | 1885 |
MP: | Robert Walter |
Party: | Conservative |
Type: | House of Commons |
County: | Dorset |
EP constituency: | South West England |
North Dorset is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency covers North Dorset local government district and most (geographically) of East Dorset. It is largely rural, with five small market towns: Blandford Forum, Gillingham, Shaftesbury, Wimborne Minster and Sturminster Newton.
The Boundary Commission for England's Fifth Report, laid before Parliament on 26 February 2007, proposes that Wimborne Minster be transferred to the Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency, and that Verwood and Three Legged Cross be transferred from the Christchurch constituency to the North Dorset constituency.
[edit] Members of Parliament
Year | Member | Party | |
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1885 | Edwin Berkeley Portman | Liberal | |
1892 | John Kenelm Digby Wingfield-Digby | Conservative | |
1905 | Arthur Walters Wills | Liberal | |
Jan. 1910 | Sir Randolf Littlehales Baker, Bt | Conservative | |
1918 | William Philip Colfox | Conservative | |
1922 | John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones | Liberal | |
1924 | Sir Cecil Hanbury | Unionist | |
1937 | Angus Valdemar Hambro | Conservative | |
1945 | Charles Frank Byers, later Baron Byers | Liberal | |
1950 | Robert Crouch | Conservative | |
1957 | Sir Richard Glyn | Conservative | |
1970 | David James | Conservative | |
1979 | Sir Nicholas Baker | Conservative | |
1997 | Robert Walter | Conservative |
[edit] Election results
General Election 2005: North Dorset | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Walter | 23,714 | 44.9 | -1.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Emily Gasson | 21,470 | 40.7 | +2.0 | |
Labour | John Yarwood | 4,596 | 8.7 | -2.5 | |
UK Independence | Richard Frampton Hobbs | 1,918 | 3.6 | +1.5 | |
Green | Ralph Arliss | 1,117 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
Majority | 2,244 | 4.2 | -3.8 | ||
Turnout | 52,815 | 71.1 | +4.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Source BBC News, 2005 |
General Election 2001: North Dorset | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Robert Walter | 22,314 | 46.7 | +2.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Emily Gasson | 18,517 | 38.7 | -0.4 | |
Labour | Mark Wareham | 5,334 | 11.2 | +0.9 | |
UK Independence | Peter Jenkins | 1,019 | 2.1 | +0.6 | |
Lower Excise Duty Party | Joseph Duthie | 391 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Independent (politician) | Cora Bone | 246 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 3,797 | 8.0 | |||
Turnout | 47,821 | 66.3 | -10.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
[edit] See also
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