North Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)

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North Dorset County constituency

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.

Members of Parliament

	Member	Party
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

General Election 2005: North Dorset
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
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

v • d • e 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 England European constituency: Conservative (3) · UKIP (2) · Liberal Democrats (1) · Labour (1)

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