Mid Dorset and North Poole (UK Parliament constituency)

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Coordinates: 50°42′01″N 2°04′09″W / 50.7004°N 2.0693°W / 50.7004; -2.0693

Mid Dorset and North Poole
County constituency
for the House of Commons
Boundary of Mid Dorset and North Poole in Dorset.
Location of Dorset within England.
County	Dorset
Electorate	64,705 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Merley, Broadstone, Corfe Mullen, Bere Regis, Wareham, and Wimborne Minster
Current constituency
Created	1997 (1997)
Member of Parliament	Annette Brooke (Liberal Democrat)
Number of members	One
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South West England

Mid Dorset and North Poole is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Annette Brooke, a Liberal Democrat.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the seats of North Dorset, Bournemouth West, South Dorset and Poole. Its current boundaries take in civil parishes from three districts, namely Purbeck, Poole and East Dorset.

Constituency profile

This area includes the north of the Purbeck Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and two touristic high-end towns, namely Wimborne Minster with its traditional tearooms, towering inland Minster Church and Wareham at one end of Poole Harbour. Income levels are close to the national average, taking into account the high proportion of pensioners living across the area.^[2] and levels of rented^[3] and social housing^[2] are below the national average, particularly levels seen in cities.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[4]	Party
	1997	Christopher Fraser	Conservative
	2001	Annette Brooke	Liberal Democrat

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2010: Mid Dorset and North Poole^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Annette Brooke	21,100	45.1	-4.9
	Conservative	Nick King^[6]	20,831	44.5	+7.7
	Labour	Darren Brown	2,748	5.9	-4.2
	UKIP	Dave Evans	2,109	4.5	+1.4
Majority			269	0.6
Turnout			46,788	64.4	-4.1
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	-6.3

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Mid Dorset and North Poole
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	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
	UKIP	Avril King	1,420	3.1	+1.7
Majority			5,482	12.1
Turnout			45,159	68.5	+2.9
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	+5.6

General Election 2001: Mid Dorset and North Poole
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	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
	UKIP	Jeff Mager	621	1.4	N/A
Majority			384	0.9
Turnout			43,718	65.6	-9.8
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing	1.15

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Mid Dorset and North Poole
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Fraser	20,632	40.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Alan Leaman	19,951	39.3	N/A
	Labour	David Collis	8,014	15.8	N/A
	Referendum Party	D Nabarro	2,136	4.2	N/A
Majority			681	1.3	N/A
Turnout			50,733	75.7	N/A

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.

References

↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2001 Census
↑ 2011 census interactive maps
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)
↑ General Election Results from the Electoral Commission
↑ "Mid Dorset and North Poole Conservatives". Conservative candidate. Mid Dorset and North Poole. 7 September 2011. Retrieved 4 July 2012.

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Liberal Democrats (15)	Bath Bristol West Cheltenham Chippenham Mid Dorset and North Poole North Cornwall North Devon St Austell and Newquay St Ives Somerton and Frome Taunton Deane Thornbury and Yate Torbay Wells Yeovil

Labour (4)	Bristol East Bristol South Exeter Plymouth Moor View

South West England European constituency: Conservative (3) UKIP (2) Liberal Democrats (1)

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