Dame Annette Lesley Brooke,DBE is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Dorset and North Poole from the 2001 general election to 2015. In 2001,she became the first female MP elected in a general election in Dorset. At the time she left office,Brooke was the longest serving female MP in the history of the Liberal Democrats.
Mid Dorset and North Poole is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Vikki Slade,a Liberal Democrat.
The 2015 Poole Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Poole Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections and the Parliamentary General Election.
The 2003 Christchurch Borough Council election took place on 1 May 2003 to elect members of Christchurch Borough Council in Dorset,England. The whole council was up for election after boundary changes reduced the number of seats by one. The Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.
Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole (BCP) is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Dorset,England. The district was created on 1 April 2019 by the merger of the areas that were previously administered by the unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole,and the non-metropolitan district of Christchurch. The authority covers much of the area of the South Dorset conurbation.
Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council,which styles itself BCP Council,is the local authority for Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole,a local government district in the ceremonial county of Dorset,England. The council is a unitary authority,being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. It is independent from Dorset Council,the unitary authority which administers the rest of the county. The district was created on 1 April 2019 by the merger of the areas that were previously administered by the unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole,and the non-metropolitan district of Christchurch.
Dorset Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in England. It is a unitary authority,being a district council which also performs the functions of a county council. The non-metropolitan county is smaller than the ceremonial county of Dorset,which also includes Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole. The council was created in 2019 when local government across Dorset was reorganised.
The Party for Poole People is a movement and local political party in Poole,Dorset,England. Defining itself as neither left or right wing,the party has stood in elections for the former Poole Borough Council and the Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council which replaced it. On the council it is part of the Poole Independents Group,which includes all three Poole People Councillors,one Alliance for Local Living (ALL) Councillor and one independent Councillor. It was previously part of the "Unity Alliance" administration on Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council from 2019 until a vote of no confidence in 2020,after which the party has been in opposition. It was founded in 2010 by Mark Howell,and has contested three local elections,as well as the Poole constituency in the 2015 UK general election.
The 2019 Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect the inaugural members of Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council in England,formed from the former unitary authorities of Bournemouth and Poole,and borough of Christchurch. At the same time an election for the new Christchurch Town Council was held.
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.
The Christchurch Independents (CI) are a political party and group in the Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council,formed by journalist Andy Martin and (former) Conservative and Independent Councillors after the reorganisation of local government in Dorset,with new candidates joining to stand in Christchurch wards for the inaugural 2019 Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council Election. Originally not forming a registered political party,CI was initially the joint-third largest alongside the Poole People and ALL group. In 2020,Christchurch Independents councillor Colin Bungey died,leading to a by-election being held the next year in the Commons Ward,for which the Christchurch Independents were registered as a political party.
Alderney and Bourne Valley is a ward in Poole,Dorset. Since 2019,the ward has elected 3 councillors to Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council.
Broadstone is a ward in Poole,Dorset. Since 2019,the ward has elected 2 councillors to Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council,one of which is the former council leader,Vikki Slade.
Canford Heath is a ward in Poole,Dorset. Since 2019,the ward has elected 3 councillors to Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council.
The 2022 Perth and Kinross Council election was held on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other local authorities in Scotland. The election used the 12 wards created under the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004,with 40 councillors elected. Each ward elects either 3 or 4 members - using the STV electoral system - a form of proportional representation.
The Poole Engage Party is a local political party on Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council. Until December 2022,the party was known as the Poole Local Group.
The 2023 Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council election took place on 4 May,2023,to elect all 76 members of Bournemouth,Christchurch and Poole Council in Dorset,England.
Sherborne West is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019,the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council.
Thomas John Hayes is a British Labour Party politician who was elected MP for Bournemouth East in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.
Sarah Gibson is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chippenham since the 2024 general election. Before her election to parliament,Gibson was elected to Wiltshire Council in 2017 and 2021.
