Lyme and Charmouth | |
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ward Dorset Council. | |
Population | 5,142 |
Major settlements | Lyme Regis and Charmouth |
Current ward | |
Created | 2019 |
Councillor | Belinda Bawden (Green Party of England and Wales) |
Number of councillors | 1 |
Lyme and Charmouth is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council. [1]
The Lyme and Charmouth ward is in the far west of Dorset and contains the towns of Lyme Regis and Charmouth. [2]
Election | Councillors | |
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2019 | Daryl Whane Turner | |
2022 | Belinda Bawden [3] (Green) | |
2024 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Belinda Bawden* | 884 | 61.0 | +46.2 | |
Conservative | Michaela Louise Ellis | 380 | 26.2 | −13.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paddy Mooney | 103 | 7.1 | New | |
Labour | David Hart | 83 | 5.7 | −7.0 | |
Turnout | 1,450 | 35.92 | |||
Green gain from Conservative | Swing |
Belinda Bawden won the 2022 by-election. [4] [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Belinda Bawden | 594 | 43.8 | +27.0 | |
Conservative | Vicci Stocqueler | 359 | 26.5 | −13.6 | |
Independent | Cheryl Reynolds | 320 | 23.6 | −6.7 | |
Labour | David Hart | 82 | 6.1 | −6.6 | |
Majority | 235 | 17.3 | |||
Turnout | 1,355 | ||||
Green gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Daryl Whane Turner | 756 | 40.1 | ||
Independent | Cheryl Lesley Reynolds | 571 | 30.3 | ||
Green | Rob Smith | 317 | 16.8 | ||
Labour | Rikey Austin | 239 | 12.7 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 44.90 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England. The village is situated on the mouth of the River Char, around 1+1⁄2 miles (2 km) north-east of Lyme Regis. Dorset County Council estimated that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,310. In the 2011 Census the population of the parish, combined with the small parish of Catherston Leweston to the north, was 1,352.
West Dorset is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Edward Morello, a Liberal Democrat.
The 2015 West Dorset District Council election was held on Thursday 7 May 2015 to elect councillors to West Dorset District Council in England. It took place on the same day as the general election other district council elections in the United Kingdom. A series of boundary changes saw the number of councillors reduced from 48 to 44.
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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