Sherborne West | |
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ward Dorset Council. | |
Population | 5,047 |
Major settlements | Sherborne |
Current ward | |
Created | 2019 |
Councillor | Richard Crabb (Liberal Democrat) |
Number of councillors | 1 |
Sherborne West is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council. [1]
In 2023, Matt Hall was elected councillor in Exmouth, Devon and so resigned. [2] He was succeeded by fellow Liberal Democrat Richard Crabb. [3]
The Sherborne West ward covers the western areas of the town of Sherborne. [4]
Election | Councillors | |
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2019 | Matt Hall | |
2023 | Richard Crabb [5] | |
2024 |
Richard Crabb was elected. [6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Richard Crabb | 589 | 50.8 | -2.8 | |
Conservative | Becky Burns | 489 | 42.2 | +4.2 | |
Labour | Nick Boothroyd | 81 | 7.0 | +7.0 | |
Majority | 100 | 8.6 | |||
Turnout | 1,159 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Matt Hall | 759 | 53.6 | ||
Conservative | Rebecca Burns | 538 | 38.0 | ||
Green | Pam Rosling | 119 | 8.4 | ||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | 42.40 | ||||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
An election to Dorset County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the United Kingdom local elections. 45 councillors were elected from 42 electoral divisions, which returned either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2009. No elections were held in Bournemouth or Poole, which are unitary authorities outside the area covered by the County Council. The election saw the Conservative Party maintain overall control of the council.
Dorset Council is a unitary local authority for the district of Dorset, encompassing almost all of the county of the same name (Dorset) except for the district of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Created in April 2019, the council was formed when the county moved from a two-tier county council and district council system to a one-tier system, with the county divided into two districts administered by two independent unitary authorities.
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.
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