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.
[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 | |
| 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 Fisher Crouch | Conservative | |
| 1957 | Sir Richard Hamilton Glyn | Conservative | |
| 1970 | David Pelham James | Conservative | |
| 1979 | Sir Nicholas Brian Baker | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Robert John 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 Democrats | Emily Gasson | 21,470 | 40.7 | +2.0 | |
| Labour | John Yarwood | 4,596 | 8.7 | -2.5 | |
| UKIP | 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 Democrats | Emily Gasson | 18,517 | 38.7 | -0.4 | |
| Labour | Mark Wareham | 5,334 | 11.2 | +0.9 | |
| UKIP | 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
| 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) | |
