Littlemoor and Preston | |
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ward Dorset Council. | |
Population | 9,528 |
Major settlements | Littlemoor, Preston |
Current ward | |
Created | 2019 |
Councillor | Louie O'Leary (Conservative) |
Councillor | Peter Dickenson (Conservative) |
Number of councillors | 2 |
Littlemoor and Preston is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 2 councillors to Dorset Council. [1]
On 6 November 2023, councillor Tony Ferrari died after collapsing while running. [2]
The Littlemoor and Preston ward covers the Weymouth suburbs of Littlemoor and Preston. [3]
Election | Councillors | |||
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2019 | Louie O'Leary [4] | Tony Ferrari [5] | ||
2024 by-election | Peter Dickenson [6] | |||
2024 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Louie James O'Leary* | 1,599 | 56.3 | +23.9 | |
Conservative | Peter Dickenson* | 1,379 | 48.6 | +13.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Howard Richard Legg | 688 | 24.2 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ann Weaving | 664 | 23.4 | +6.1 | |
Independent | Alex Bailey | 439 | 15.5 | New | |
Labour | Steve Brown | 408 | 14.4 | −9.2 | |
Turnout | 2,838 | 37.42 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
A by-election was held on 11 January 2024 to replace Tony Ferrari who died. [7] It was held by Conservative Peter Dickenson. [8]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Dickenson | 1,237 | 53.7 | +24.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Clifford | 833 | 36.2 | +19.1 | |
Labour | Stephen Brown | 232 | 10.1 | −9.5 | |
Majority | 404 | 17.5 | |||
Turnout | 2,302 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Tony Ferrari | 1,078 | 35.3 | ||
Conservative | Louie James O`Leary | 988 | 32.4 | ||
Independent | Michael McCallister Wilkinson | 741 | 24.3 | ||
Labour | Mark Richard Tewkesbury | 719 | 23.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Gillian Pearson | 629 | 20.6 | ||
Labour | Ann Weaving | 527 | 17.3 | ||
Green | John Victor Tomblin | 505 | 16.6 | ||
Independent | David Skinner | 347 | 11.4 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 3,050 | 40.15 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Littlemoor is a suburb of Weymouth in Dorset, England. Littlemoor is about 2 miles (3 km) to the north of the town centre. The nearest railway station is Upwey 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the west.
Preston is a coastal village and suburb of Weymouth in south Dorset, England. It is approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-east of Weymouth town centre and 2 kilometres (1 mi) west of the village of Osmington.
The 2019 Dorset Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2019 to elect councillors to the new Dorset Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom.
The Alliance for Local Living (ALL) was a minor localist party and political group based in Dorset, with separate branches in the two authorities, ALL for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and ALL for Dorset. The BCP office was based in Poole, whilst the Dorset office was based in Weymouth. The party was deregistered in November 2023, at which point it had four councillors on Dorset Council, who continued to sit together as an informal grouping. The group became Independents for Dorset in 2024.
Dorset Council is the local authority for the unitary authority of Dorset in England. There are 82 councillors, elected every five years until 2029, after which elections will be held every four years.
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