Coordinates: 51°00′21″N 2°11′51″W / 51.0058°N 2.1976°W
| North Dorset County constituency |
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| North Dorset shown within Dorset, and Dorset shown within England | |
| Created: | 1885 |
| MP: | Robert Walter |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Dorset |
| EP constituency: | South West England |
North Dorset is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency covers North Dorset local government district and most (geographically) of East Dorset. It is largely rural, with five small market towns: Blandford Forum, Gillingham, Shaftesbury, Wimborne Minster and Sturminster Newton.
The Boundary Commission for England's Fifth Report, laid before Parliament on 26 February 2007, proposes that Wimborne Minster be transferred to the Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency, and that Verwood and Three Legged Cross be transferred from the Christchurch constituency to the North Dorset constituency.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1885 | Edwin Berkeley Portman | Liberal | |
| 1892 | John Kenelm Digby Wingfield-Digby | Conservative | |
| 1905 by-election | Arthur Walters Wills | Liberal | |
| Jan 1910 | Sir Randolf Littlehales Baker, Bt | Conservative | |
| 1918 | William Philip Colfox | Conservative | |
| 1922 | John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones | Liberal | |
| 1924 | Sir Cecil Hanbury | Unionist | |
| 1937 by-election | Angus Valdimar Hambro | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Charles Frank Byers, later Baron Byers | Liberal | |
| 1950 | Robert Crouch | Conservative | |
| 1957 by-election | Sir Richard Glyn | Conservative | |
| 1970 | David James | Conservative | |
| 1979 | Nicholas Baker | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Robert Walter | Conservative | |
Election results
| General Election 2005: North Dorset | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Robert Walter | 23,714 | 44.9 | -1.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Emily Gasson | 21,470 | 40.7 | +2.0 | |
| Labour | John Yarwood | 4,596 | 8.7 | -2.5 | |
| UKIP | Richard Frampton Hobbs | 1,918 | 3.6 | +1.5 | |
| Green | Ralph Arliss | 1,117 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
| Majority | 2,244 | 4.2 | -3.8 | ||
| Turnout | 52,815 | 71.1 | +4.8 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Source BBC News, 2005 | |||||
| General Election 2001: North Dorset | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Robert Walter | 22,314 | 46.7 | +2.4 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Emily Gasson | 18,517 | 38.7 | -0.4 | |
| Labour | Mark Wareham | 5,334 | 11.2 | +0.9 | |
| UKIP | Peter Jenkins | 1,019 | 2.1 | +0.6 | |
| Lower Excise Duty Party | Joseph Duthie | 391 | 0.8 | N/A | |
| Independent (politician) | Cora Bone | 246 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 3,797 | 8.0 | |||
| Turnout | 47,821 | 66.3 | -10.0 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
See also
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