South Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)
Coordinates: 50°34′00″N 2°27′15″W / 50.5666°N 2.4541°W
South Dorset | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of South Dorset in Dorset. | |
Location of Dorset within England. | |
County | Dorset |
Electorate | 73,499 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Weymouth and Swanage |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1885 |
Member of parliament | Richard Drax (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Dorset |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South West England |
South Dorset is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Richard Drax, a Conservative.[n 2] The constituency was created as a consequence of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, although the area covered has changed since then.
History
Formation
The constituency was created as a consequence of the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. The Act reduced the number of MPs.in Dorset from 10 to 4 (see Redistribution of Seats Act 1885#Redistributed seats: England). It was initially proposed to name the new constituencies after existing boroughs (Shaftesbury, Dorchester, Poole and Bridport) but, following an amendment in the Commons on 14 April 1885, the names were changed to the points of the compass (North Dorset, South Dorset, East Dorset, West Dorset).[2]
The South Dorset constituency was divided into 7 polling districts. Dorchester was chosen as the place where the nomination of candidates would take place and the result would be declared.[3] The area covered was:[3]
- Broadwey polling district: Bincombe, Broadwey, Buckland Ripers, Preston and Sutton Poyntz, Upwey
- Chesilton polling district: Portland
- Dorchester polling district: Bockhampton-cum-Stinsford, Bradford Peverell and Muckleford, Charminster, Dorchester All Saints, Dorchester Holy Trinity, Dorchester St Peter, Fordington, Stratton and Grimstone, West Knighton, West Stafford, Whitcombe, Winterborne Came, Winterborne Herringstone, Winterborne Monkton, Winterborne St Martin
- Melcombe Regis polling district: Chickerell, Fleet, Melcombe Regis, Radipole, Weymouth, Wyke Regis
- Poxwell polling district: Broadmayne, Osmington, Poxwell, Warmwell, Watercombe
- Puddletown polling district: Affpuddle, Athelhampton, Burleston, Dewlish, Piddlehinton, Puddletown, Tincleton, Tolpuddle, Turners Puddle, Woodsford
- Winfrith polling district: Chaldon Herring, Coombe Keynes, East Lulworth, Moreton, Owermoigne, West Lulworth, Winfrith Newburgh, Wool
Recent history
In the 1997 election the seat was won by Ian Bruce by a margin of only 77 votes, one of the smallest margins in the UK. The 2001 election saw the second Labour win in South Dorset's history with Labour's smallest majority in England, at 153. In the 2005 election this constituency was one of the few in which Labour significantly increased their majority. Conservative candidate Ed Matts was found to have doctored an image which was part of his campaign material. Matts changed a photo of a protest against the deportation of a South Dorset resident, so that it appeared to be a protest against "uncontrolled immigration". In both elections, the left-wing singer-songwriter Billy Bragg led an anti-Conservative tactical voting campaign in Dorset constituencies.
The 2010 election saw Conservative Richard Drax, a former soldier and journalist from a long line of Dorset representatives, defeating the incumbent Jim Knight, who ended his final year in parliament as the Minister (of State) for Employment and Welfare Reform. Richard Drax retained the seat in 2015 election with an increased majority.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Boroughs of Dorchester, and Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Dorchester and Wareham.
1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Wareham, and Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, the Urban Districts of Portland and Swanage, the Rural District of Wareham and Purbeck (the civil parishes of Affpuddle, Arne, Bere Regis, Bloxworth, Chaldon Herring, Church Knowle, Coombe Keynes, Corfe Castle, East Holme, East Lulworth, East Stoke, Kimmeridge, Langton Matravers, Lytchett Matravers, Lytchett Minster, Morden, Moreton, St Martin, Steeple, Studland, Turners Puddle, Tyneham, Wareham St Martin, West Lulworth, Winfrith Newburgh, Wool, and Worth Matravers), and the part of the Rural District of Weymouth that was not included in the Dorset West constituency (ie Bincombe, Broadwey, Chickerell, Fleet, Osmington, Owermoigne, Poxwell, Preston, Radipole, Upwey and Wyke Regis).
1950-1983: The Municipal Boroughs of Wareham, and Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, the Urban Districts of Portland and Swanage, the Rural District of Wareham and Purbeck, and in the Rural District of Dorchester the civil parishes of Bincombe, Chickerell, Fleet, Osmington, Owermoigne, and Poxwell.
1983-1997: The Borough of Weymouth and Portland, the District of Purbeck wards of Bere Regis, Castle, Langton, St Martin, Swanage North, Swanage South, Wareham, West Purbeck, Winfrith, and Wool, and the District of West Dorset ward of Owermoigne.
1997-2010: The Borough of Weymouth and Portland, the District of Purbeck wards of Castle, Langton, Swanage North, Swanage South, West Purbeck, Winfrith, and Wool, and the District of West Dorset ward of Owermoigne.
2010-present: The Borough of Weymouth and Portland (the wards of Littlemoor, Melcombe Regis, Preston, Radipole, Tophill East, Tophill West, Underhill, Upwey and Broadwey, Westham East, Westham North, Westham West, Wey Valley, Weymouth East, Weymouth West, and Wyke Regis), the District of Purbeck wards of Castle, Creech Barrow, Langton, Swanage North, Swanage South, West Purbeck, Winfrith, and Wool, and the District of West Dorset ward of Owermoigne.
Constituency profile
The seat includes the coastal areas to the south of the county of Dorset, plus some rural Purbeck territory further inland. The port of Weymouth is one of the few large towns in Dorset and its suburbs extend onto the Wyke Regis peninsula and the isle of Portland, connected to the mainland by road (and, in the past, rail).
The constituency includes Bovington army camp, and further east, Corfe Castle, connected by the preserved Swanage Railway steam railway to the holiday resort of Swanage. This part of the seat is closer to Poole and Bournemouth than to Weymouth.
Workless claimants were in November 2012 significantly lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 2.8% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[4]
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
General Election 2015: South Dorset[9] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Richard Drax | 23,756 | 48.9 | +3.8 | |
Labour | Simon Bowkett | 11,762 | 24.2 | -6.1 | |
UKIP | Malcolm Shakesby[10] | 7,304 | 15.0 | +11.0 | |
Liberal Democrat | Howard Legg[11] | 2,901 | 6.0 | -13.0 | |
Green | Jane Burnet[12] | 2,275 | 4.7 | +3.5 | |
Independent | Mervyn Stewkesbury | 435 | 0.9 | ||
Movement for Active Democracy | Andy Kirkwood | 164 | 0.3 | -0.2 | |
Majority | 11,994 | 24.7 | |||
Turnout | 48,737 | 68.1 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 2010: South Dorset[13][14] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Richard Drax | 22,667 | 45.1 | +7.1 | |
Labour | Jim Knight | 15,224 | 30.3 | -11.4 | |
Liberal Democrat | Ros Kayes | 9,557 | 19.0 | +3.2 | |
UKIP | Mike Hobson | 2,034 | 4.0 | +0.8 | |
Green | Brian Heatley | 595 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
Movement for Active Democracy | Andy Kirkwood | 233 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 7,443 | 14.8 | |||
Turnout | 50,310 | 68.1 | -1.3 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +9.3 | |||
Elections in the 2000s
General Election 2005: South Dorset[15] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jim Knight | 20,231 | 41.6 | −0.4 | |
Conservative | Ed Matts | 18,419 | 37.9 | −3.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Graham Oakes | 7,647 | 15.7 | +1.3 | |
UKIP | Hugh Chalker | 1,571 | 3.2 | +1.2 | |
Legalise Cannabis | Vic Hamilton | 282 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Respect | Berny Parkes | 219 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Personality and Rational Thinking? Yes! Party | Andy Kirkwood | 107 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Wessex Regionalist | Colin Bex | 83 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Socialist Labour | David Marchesi | 25 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,812 | 3.7 | |||
Turnout | 48,584 | 68.7 | +3.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.7 | |||
General Election 2001: South Dorset[16] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jim Knight | 19,027 | 42.0 | +6.0 | |
Conservative | Ian Bruce | 18,874 | 41.6 | +5.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Andy Canning | 6,531 | 14.4 | -5.8 | |
UKIP | Laurie Moss | 913 | 2.0 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 153 | 0.4 | |||
Turnout | 45,345 | 65.5 | -8.5 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1990s
General Election 1997: South Dorset[17] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Ian Bruce | 17,755 | 36.10 | ||
Labour | Jim Knight | 17,678 | 35.94 | ||
Liberal Democrat | Michael Plummer | 9,936 | 20.20 | ||
Referendum | Patrick C. McAndrew | 2,791 | 5.68 | ||
UKIP | Malcolm Shakesby | 861 | 1.75 | ||
Natural Law | Gerald T.H. Napper | 161 | 0.33 | ||
Majority | 77 | 0.16 | |||
Turnout | 73.97 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1992: South Dorset[18][19] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Ian Bruce | 29,319 | 50.3 | −4.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | Brian E.J. Ellis | 15,811 | 27.1 | −0.3 | |
Labour | Alan Chedzoy | 12,298 | 21.1 | +3.8 | |
Independent | Mrs JW Hagel | 673 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Natural Law | MRF Griffiths | 191 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 13,508 | 23.2 | −4.2 | ||
Turnout | 58,292 | 76.9 | +1.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | −2.1 | |||
Elections in the 1980s
General Election 1987: South Dorset[20] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Ian Bruce | 30,184 | 54.84 | ||
Liberal | Brian E.J. Ellis | 15,117 | 27.47 | ||
Labour | B Dench | 9,494 | 17.25 | ||
Independent | A Hayler | 244 | 0.44 | ||
Majority | 15,067 | 27.38 | |||
Turnout | 75.55 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1983: South Dorset[21] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Cranborne | 28,631 | 57.10 | ||
Social Democratic | S Head | 13,533 | 26.99 | ||
Labour | D Hewitt | 7,831 | 15.62 | ||
Independent | B Smith | 151 | 0.30 | ||
Majority | 15,098 | 30.11 | |||
Turnout | 72.68 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1970s
General Election 1979: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Cranborne | 32,372 | 55.67 | ||
Labour | Alan Chedzoy | 17,133 | 29.46 | ||
Liberal | P St. J Howe | 8,649 | 14.87 | ||
Majority | 15,239 | 26.20 | |||
Turnout | 78.33 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election October 1974: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Evelyn Mansfield King | 24,351 | 45.88 | ||
Labour | Alan Chedzoy | 17,652 | 33.26 | ||
Liberal | C Sandy | 11,075 | 20.87 | ||
Majority | 6,699 | 12.62 | |||
Turnout | 75.38 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election February 1974: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Evelyn Mansfield King | 26,933 | 46.93 | ||
Labour | Alan Chedzoy | 18,318 | 31.92 | ||
Liberal | DT Broomfield | 12,140 | 21.15 | ||
Majority | 8,615 | 15.01 | |||
Turnout | 82.19 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1970: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Evelyn Mansfield King | 27,580 | 52.06 | ||
Labour | Richard George May | 20,716 | 39.10 | ||
Liberal | Keith Searby | 4,680 | 8.83 | ||
Majority | 6,864 | 12.96 | |||
Turnout | 78.98 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1960s
General Election 1966: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Evelyn Mansfield King | 22,997 | 46.01 | ||
Labour | Frederick W Morgan | 21,120 | 42.26 | ||
Liberal | Geoffrey Maxwell Goode | 5,862 | 11.72 | ||
Majority | 1,877 | 3.76 | |||
Turnout | 81.00 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1964: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Evelyn Mansfield King | 21,209 | 43.66 | ||
Labour | Nicolas Guy Barnett | 20,274 | 41.73 | ||
Liberal | Terence Patrick Bourke | 7,100 | 14.61 | ||
Majority | 935 | 1.92 | |||
Turnout | 81.02 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
South Dorset by-election, 1962 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Nicolas Guy Barnett | 13,783 | 33.51 | -1.16 | |
Conservative | Angus Edmund Upton Maude | 13,079 | 31.79 | -17.99 | |
Liberal | Lawrence I Norbury-Williams | 8,910 | 21.66 | +6.11 | |
Anti Common Market | Sir Piers Kenrick Debenham | 5,057 | 12.29 | N/A | |
Independent | P. Burn | 181 | 0.44 | N/A | |
Independent | M. Fudge | 82 | 0.20 | N/A | |
Independent | J.C. O'Connor | 45 | 0.11 | N/A | |
Majority | 704 | 1.71 | |||
Turnout | 41,137 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1950s
General Election 1959: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | 22,050 | 49.78 | ||
Labour | Conrad F Ascher | 15,357 | 34.67 | ||
Liberal | Lawrence I Norbury-Williams | 6,887 | 15.55 | ||
Majority | 6,693 | 15.11 | |||
Turnout | 78.82 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1955: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | 22,119 | 50.71 | ||
Labour | Frederick Newman Stacey | 16,702 | 38.29 | ||
Liberal | Geoffrey Maxwell Goode | 4,798 | 11.00 | ||
Majority | 5,417 | 12.42 | |||
Turnout | 79.25 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1951: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | 21,679 | 48.25 | ||
Labour | Frederick Newman Stacey | 18,244 | 40.61 | ||
Liberal | Wilfred Ewart Ward | 5,005 | 11.14 | ||
Majority | 3,435 | 7.65 | |||
Turnout | 83.98 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1950: South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | 20,014 | 45.51 | ||
Labour | Frederick Newman Stacey | 17,471 | 39.73 | ||
Liberal | Wyatt Trevelyan Rawson Rawson | 6,489 | 14.76 | ||
Majority | 2,543 | 5.78 | |||
Turnout | 84.38 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1940s
General Election 1945: Dorset Southern | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | 14,626 | 42.72 | ||
Labour | Philip Sidney Eastman | 12,460 | 36.40 | ||
Liberal | Lt. Wilfred Ewart Ward | 7,149 | 20.88 | ||
Majority | 2,166 | 6.33 | |||
Turnout | 73.60 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
South Dorset by-election, 1941 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Hinchingbrooke | unopposed | n/a | n/a | |
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election 1939/40: Another general election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;
- Conservative: Viscount Cranborne
- Liberal: FW King
- Labour: Philip Sidney Eastman
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1935: Dorset Southern | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Cranborne | 17,637 | 57.88 | ||
Labour | Arthur William Wiltshire | 8,580 | 28.16 | ||
Liberal | FW King | 4,255 | 13.96 | ||
Majority | 9,057 | 29.72 | |||
Turnout | 70.05 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1931: Dorset Southern | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Viscount Cranborne | 21,284 | 70.73 | ||
Labour | Arthur William Wiltshire | 8,809 | 29.27 | ||
Majority | 12,475 | 41.45 | |||
Turnout | 73.29 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1920s
General Election 1929: Dorset South [22] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Viscount Cranborne | 14,632 | 49.2 | -21.3 | |
Liberal | Cuthbert Plaistowe | 8,168 | 27.5 | n/a | |
Labour | Arthur William Wiltshire | 6,950 | 23.4 | -6.1 | |
Majority | 6,464 | 21.7 | -19.3 | ||
Turnout | 29,750 | 75.5 | +9.4 | ||
Unionist hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election 1924: South Dorset[23] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Robert Daniel Thwaites Yerburgh | 13,900 | 70.5 | ||
Labour | W Ridson | 5,821 | 29.5 | ||
Majority | 8,079 | 41.0 | |||
Turnout | 66.1 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
General Election 1923: South Dorset [24] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Robert Daniel Thwaites Yerburgh | 11,057 | 53.5 | -3.7 | |
Liberal | Robert Stone Comben | 5,973 | 29.0 | +7.0 | |
Labour | David Wyndham Thomas | 3,602 | 17.5 | -3.3 | |
Majority | 5,084 | 24.5 | -10.7 | ||
Turnout | 71.6 | -3.6 | |||
Unionist hold | Swing | -5.4 | |||
General Election 1922 : South Dorset[25] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | Robert Daniel Thwaites Yerburgh | 12,121 | |||
Liberal | Frederick Maddison | 4,657 | |||
Labour | Henry Pavely | 4,394 | |||
Majority | 7,464 | 35.2 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1918 South Dorset [26] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Unionist | 11,175 | ||||
Labour | Brette Morgan | 5,159 | |||
Majority | 6,016 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
- denotes candidate who was endorsed by the Coalition Government.
General Election December 1910 South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Angus Valdemar Hambro | unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election January 1910 South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Angus Valdemar Hambro | 5,811 | |||
Liberal | Thomas Talbot Leyland Scarisbrick | 4,379 | |||
Majority | 1,432 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1900s
General Election 1906 South Dorset[27] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Thomas Talbot Leyland Scarisbrick | 5,035 | 53.3 | ||
Conservative | William Ernest Brymer | 4,411 | 46.7 | ||
Majority | 624 | 6.6 | |||
Turnout | 87.1 | +4.9 | |||
Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
General Election 1900 South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | William Ernest Brymer | 3,884 | |||
Liberal | Alexander Leslie Renton | 3,519 | |||
Majority | 365 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1890s
General Election 1895 South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | William Ernest Brymer | unopposed | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | n/a | |||
General Election 1892 South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | William Ernest Brymer | 3,657 | |||
Liberal | Edward Robert Pearce-Edgcumbe | 3,489 | |||
Majority | 168 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
South Dorset by-election, 1891[28] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | William Ernest Brymer | 3,284 | |||
Liberal | Edward Robert Pearce-Edgcumbe | 3,244 | |||
Majority | 40 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Elections in the 1880s
General Election 1886 South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Conservative | Charles Joseph Theophilus Hambro | 3,477 | |||
Liberal | Henry Parkman Sturgis | 2,486 | |||
Majority | 991 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | ||||
General Election 1885 South Dorset | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Liberal | Henry Parkman Sturgis | 3,128 | |||
Conservative | Charles Joseph Theophilus Hambro | 3,095 | |||
Majority | 33 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal win (new seat) | |||||
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ "The Redistribution Bill". The Times. 15 April 1885. p. 6.
- 1 2 "Official Announcements – County of Dorset". Western Gazette. 17 July 1885. Retrieved 21 November 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)
- ↑ Died 1891
- ↑ Called to the House of Lords, by a writ in acceleration, as Lord Cecil of Essendon in 1941
- ↑ Succeeded as the 10th Earl of Sandwich
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/2015guide/dorsetsouth/
- ↑ "Howard Legg PPC page". Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ↑ http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/dorset-south-2015.html
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Grainger, Tom (20 April 2010). "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll" (PDF). Acting Returning Officer. Weymouth & Portland Borough Council. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
- ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ↑ British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 (Craig)
- ↑ The Constitiutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 143 (167 in web page), Dorsetshire
Sources
- BBC News article on the 2001 South Dorset election