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The 1983 West Dorset District Council election was held on Thursday 5 May 1983 to elect councillors to West Dorset District Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom. The entire council was up for election, following boundary changes that reduced the number of wards by two, but altogether the number of seats remained the same. [1] Subsequent elections for the council would be elected by thirds following the passing a resolution under section 7 (4) (b) of the Local Government Act 1972.
The 1983 election saw the Independent councillors lose seats but maintain their majority control on the Council.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | A. Hudson * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Independent | R. Bugler * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 2,794 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ind. Conservative | D. Cracknell | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,502 | ||||
Ind. Conservative gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | E. Garrett * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,342 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ind. Conservative | R. Coatsworth * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,464 | ||||
Ind. Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | A. Tiltman * | 780 | 37.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | D. Stebbings | 682 | 32.6 | N/A | |
Labour | D. Cash | 629 | 30.1 | N/A | |
Alliance | P. Foote | 441 | – | ||
Alliance | H. Draper | 353 | – | ||
Turnout | 67.5 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 3,096 | ||||
Alliance win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | C. Samways * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Alliance | A. Bell * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 2,465 | ||||
Independent win (new seat) | |||||
Alliance win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | B. Course * | 354 | 53.8 | –11.1 | |
Conservative | I. Cobbold | 304 | 46.2 | +11.1 | |
Majority | 50 | 7.6 | –22.3 | ||
Turnout | 52.7 | —26.2 | |||
Registered electors | 1,249 | ||||
Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | C. Coate * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,049 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | R. Bailey * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,137 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | N. White * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,048 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Dione Digby, Lady Digby * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,075 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | E. Hanford * | 270 | 42.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | B. Woodhouse | 252 | 39.4 | N/A | |
Alliance | G. Halliwell | 117 | 18.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 18 | 2.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49.0 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 1,255 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | J. Cockerill | 441 | 65.8 | N/A | |
Independent | J. Robinson | 229 | 34.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 212 | 31.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 52.2 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 1,284 | ||||
Independent gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | M. Pengelly * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,269 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | E. Edwards-Stuart * | 643 | 63.9 | N/A | |
Independent | W. McCarthy * | 364 | – | N/A | |
Independent | P. Brown | 185 | – | N/A | |
Independent | E. Davies | 172 | – | N/A | |
Turnout | 34.6 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 2,912 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | Enid Stella Jones * | 588 | 38.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | C. Lucas * | 499 | 32.9 | N/A | |
Alliance | D. Smith | 428 | – | ||
Conservative | J. Graham | 310 | – | ||
Labour | E. Adams | 123 | 8.1 | N/A | |
Labour | P. Warner | 121 | – | ||
Turnout | 66.8 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 2,269 | ||||
Alliance win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | L. Phillips * | 678 | – | N/A | |
Conservative | C. Thatcher | 499 | 31.6 | N/A | |
Alliance | J. Walker | 262 | 16.6 | N/A | |
Alliance | T. Harries | 262 | – | ||
Labour | J. Hertslet | 141 | 8.9 | N/A | |
Turnout | 70.0 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 2,258 | ||||
Independent win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | P. Seaton * | 1,077 | 56.0 | N/A | |
Alliance | D. Maggs | 847 | 44.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | J. Hebb | 820 | – | ||
Conservative | D. Lang | 782 | – | ||
Alliance | H. Nicholson * | 781 | – | ||
Alliance | S. Pritchard | 774 | – | ||
Turnout | 52.6 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 3,657 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Alliance win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | G. Powell * | 743 | 46.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | G. Duke | 561 | – | ||
Conservative | F. Alderman * | 548 | – | ||
Liberal | E. Boothman * | 544 | 34.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | D. Bowring | 509 | – | ||
Liberal | David Trevor Jones * | 500 | – | ||
Labour | D. Watson | 302 | 19.0 | N/A | |
Labour | T. Warren | 284 | – | ||
Labour | J. Yeomans | 241 | – | ||
Turnout | 75.5 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 2,106 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | B. Bryant * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,031 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | T. Frost * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,176 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | M. Cockburn * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,169 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | D. Fry | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,011 | ||||
Independent gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | J. Broom * | 823 | – | ||
Independent | D. Applebee | 819 | – | ||
Independent | J. Nuttall * | 729 | – | ||
Conservative | V. Homyer * | 531 | 39.2 | N/A | |
Turnout | 46.7 | –30.9 | |||
Registered electors | 2,902 | ||||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Independent gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | H. Haward * | 497 | 67.0 | N/A | |
Alliance | N. Patmore | 245 | 33.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 252 | 34.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 73.4 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 1,011 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | J. Peake | 409 | 62.3 | N/A | |
Independent | C. Poole * | 247 | 37.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 162 | 24.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49.1 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 1,335 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | P. Gill | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Independent | R. Symes * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 2,235 | ||||
Alliance win (new seat) | |||||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ind. Conservative | A. Read | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,218 | ||||
Ind. Conservative gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | A. Bowden | 440 | 72.4 | N/A | |
Labour | S. Riddell | 168 | 27.6 | –5.4 | |
Majority | 272 | 44.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 54.7 | —20.8 | |||
Registered electors | 1,111 | ||||
Independent gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | J. Brewer * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,139 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | E. Dyke * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Independent | K. Luxmoore | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 2,634 | ||||
Independent win (new seat) | |||||
Independent win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | E. King * | 927 | – | N/A | |
Conservative | S. Waddington | 792 | 32.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | P. Jenkins | 766 | – | ||
Alliance | S. Somerville | 728 | 29.8 | N/A | |
Turnout | 60.7 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 4,031 | ||||
Independent win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | G. Summers * | 360 | 66.5 | N/A | |
Alliance | B. Wheeler | 181 | 33.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 179 | 33.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 42.3 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 1,278 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | P. Atyeo * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,038 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | M. Kraft * | 333 | 80.4 | N/A | |
Alliance | J. Hallett | 81 | 19.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 252 | 60.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 54.7 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 757 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | C. Gibson | 445 | 82.3 | N/A | |
Alliance | P. Lathey | 96 | 17.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 349 | 64.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 46.8 | N/A | |||
Registered electors | 1,157 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | S. Slade * | 512 | 70.9 | +2.6 | |
Conservative | T. Shorter | 210 | 29.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 302 | 41.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 40.8 | –42.5 | |||
Registered electors | 1,771 | ||||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | W. Anderson * | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,204 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
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