Blackmore Vale | |
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ward Dorset Council. | |
Population | 4,549 |
Major settlements | Blackmore Vale |
Current ward | |
Created | 2019 |
Councillor | Stephen Murcer (Conservative) |
Number of councillors | 1 |
Blackmore Vale is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council. [1]
The Blackmore Vale ward is in rural North Dorset, [2] and contains the civil parishes of Fifehead Neville, Hazelbury Bryan, Ibberton, Lydlinch, Mappowder, Okeford Fitzpaine, Pulham, Shillingstone, Stoke Wake and Woolland. [3]
It is named after the Blackmore Vale, but contains only a part of the vale, other parts of which are covered by the Beacon, Gillingham, Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants, Stalbridge and Marnhull and Sturminster Newton wards. [3]
Election | Councillors | |
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2019 | Pauline Hannah Batstone | |
2024 | Stephen Murcer |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Stephen Murcer | 637 | 50.3 | −11.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Philip Suter | 468 | 37.0 | +22.4 | |
Green | Vicki Elcoate | 161 | 12.7 | New | |
Turnout | 1,266 | 35.09 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Pauline Hannah Batstone | 912 | 61.8 | ||
UKIP | Bill Woodhouse | 224 | 15.2 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Ian De Carteret Edlin | 215 | 14.6 | ||
Labour | Kevin Thomas James Shillington | 124 | 8.4 | ||
Majority | 688 | 45.3 | |||
Turnout | 40.70 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
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