The 2011 West Dorset District Council election was held on Thursday 5 May 2011 to elect councillors to West Dorset District Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom. The whole of this 48-seat council was up for election.
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Map showing the results of the 2011 West Dorset District Council elections. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2011 election saw the Conservatives maintain majority control of the council taking 32 of the 48 seats up for election.
Overall results edit
West Dorset District Council[1] | |||||||||||||||
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Party | Candidates | Votes | |||||||||||||
Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | No. | Net % | |||||||
Conservative | 40 | 32 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 66.7% | 43.0% | 26,052 | |||||||
Liberal Democrats | 39 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 22.9% | 34.5% | 20,927 | |||||||
Independent | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10.4% | 7.6% | 4,593 | |||||||
Labour | 21 | 0 | 0% | 10.4% | 6,290 | ||||||||||
Green | 7 | 0 | 0% | 3.7% | 2,220 | ||||||||||
UKIP | 2 | 0 | 0% | 0.8% | 507 |
Ward results edit
Beaminster edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Caroline Lucy Payne * | 922 | 51.0 | +2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Janet Irene Page * | 853 | – | ||
Conservative | Sarah Anne Samuel | 774 | 42.8 | +0.6 | |
Conservative | Peter Gerald Edward Body | 731 | – | ||
Turnout | 1,836 | 54.45 | +5.65 | ||
Registered electors | 3,372 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Bradford Abbas edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Robin Andrew Shane Legg | 493 | 56.7 | +10.3 | |
Conservative | Michael James Bevan | 376 | 43.3 | –4.5 | |
Majority | 117 | 13.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 888 | 57.66 | –2.04 | ||
Registered electors | 1,540 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing |
Bradpole edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ronald William Coatsworth * | 461 | 60.4 | –10.2 | |
Green | Julian Jones | 157 | 20.6 | +11.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Roe | 145 | 19.0 | –1.0 | |
Majority | 304 | 39.8 | –10.9 | ||
Turnout | 766 | 45.57 | +4.97 | ||
Registered electors | 1,681 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Bridport North edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Rosamond Catherine Kayes * | 714 | 45.1 | +10.9 | |
Conservative | Keith Allan Day | 511 | 32.3 | –3.0 | |
Conservative | David Anthony Johnson Bushrod | 464 | – | ||
Liberal Democrats | Christopher Martin Ray | 433 | – | ||
Green | Tess Dickson | 398 | 25.2 | +14.3 | |
Labour | Richard Howard Nicholls | 343 | 21.7 | +11.9 | |
Turnout | 1,609 | 45.54 | +5.04 | ||
Registered electors | 3,533 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Bridport South & Bothenhampton edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Sandra Ann Brown * | 1,101 | 47.3 | +14.1 | |
Independent | David Robert Tett * | 786 | 33.7 | +10.1 | |
Conservative | Frances Kathleen McKenzie | 752 | – | ||
Liberal Democrats | Karl Gareth Wallace * | 671 | 28.8 | +4.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Dave Rickard | 668 | – | ||
Liberal Democrats | Anne-Marie Angela Vincent | 585 | – | ||
Green | Leon Sea | 382 | 16.4 | +4.2 | |
Labour | Martin Hugh Warne | 334 | 14.3 | +7.7 | |
Labour | Simon Jones | 259 | – | ||
Labour | Karen Ellis | 251 | – | ||
Turnout | 2,361 | 49.96 | |||
Registered electors | 4,726 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Broadmayne edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Alan John Thacker * | 503 | 54.7 | –10.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tamara Fay Loakes | 240 | 26.1 | –8.8 | |
Labour | Hazel Jean Gant | 176 | 19.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 263 | 28.6 | –1.6 | ||
Turnout | 926 | 57.30 | +11.50 | ||
Registered electors | 1,616 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Broadwindsor edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Jacqualyne Frances Irene Sewell * | 588 | 72.9 | +2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Teresa Georgina Harrison | 219 | 27.1 | –2.4 | |
Majority | 369 | 45.7 | +4.6 | ||
Turnout | 832 | 56.87 | +11.57 | ||
Registered electors | 1,463 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Burton Bradstock edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Patrick Russell | 511 | 49.8 | +5.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lydia Josephine Roe | 303 | 29.5 | –19.8 | |
Green | Charles Stephen Fuge | 212 | 20.7 | +14.8 | |
Majority | 208 | 20.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 1,036 | 63.44 | –1.46 | ||
Registered electors | 1,633 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Cam Vale edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Richard Jungius | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,737 | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats |
Charminster & Cerne Valley edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Alistair Fraser Chisholm | 936 | 42.9 | N/A | |
Conservative | Sarah Jane East * | 907 | 41.6 | –17.7 | |
Conservative | Andrew Frederick Horsington * | 845 | – | ||
Liberal Democrats | Iain Douglas Young | 637 | 29.2 | +1.4 | |
Labour | Steve Bick | 343 | 15.7 | +2.9 | |
Turnout | 2,201 | 57.04 | +9.64 | ||
Registered electors | 3,859 | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Charmouth edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jane Bremner | 455 | 56.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Laura Frances Noel | 355 | 43.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 100 | 12.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 827 | 58.04 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 1,425 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent | Swing |
Chesil Bank edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Thomas William George Bartlett * | 604 | 55.3 | –10.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Vaughan Jones | 489 | 44.7 | +10.9 | |
Majority | 115 | 10.5 | –21.9 | ||
Turnout | 1,115 | 63.14 | +11.64 | ||
Registered electors | 1,766 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Chickerell edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Jean Dunseith | 895 | 47.8 | +2.8 | |
Conservative | Elaine Elizabeth Whyte * | 877 | – | ||
Conservative | Ian Charles Gardner * | 842 | – | ||
Green | Jane Burnet | 471 | 25.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Nigel Mykura | 378 | 20.2 | +10.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gillian Lesley Fifield | 325 | 17.3 | –28.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Melissa Rachel Lane | 322 | – | ||
Liberal Democrats | Margaret Jean Ray | 259 | – | ||
Turnout | 1,882 | 42.70 | +5.30 | ||
Registered electors | 4,407 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Chideock & Symondsbury edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Gillian Esme Summers * | 449 | 60.0 | –6.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip John Colfox | 299 | 40.0 | +6.4 | |
Majority | 150 | 20.1 | –12.7 | ||
Turnout | 774 | 52.58 | +19.78 | ||
Registered electors | 1,472 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Dorchester East edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Enid Stella Jones * | 1,046 | 58.4 | +10.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Timothy Charles Nelson Harries * | 902 | – | ||
Conservative | Jonathan Halewood | 478 | 26.7 | +0.5 | |
Labour Co-op | Barry Thompson | 382 | 21.3 | +10.9 | |
Labour Co-op | Lesley Begley | 349 | – | ||
Turnout | 1,811 | 49.70 | +9.40 | ||
Registered electors | 3,644 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Dorchester North edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Andrew James Canning * | 945 | 47.3 | +4.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Susan Caroline Hosford * | 943 | – | ||
Conservative | Peter Arne Read | 547 | 27.4 | –5.4 | |
Conservative | Vivienne Jennifer Allan | 516 | – | ||
Labour | Anthony John Gould | 257 | 12.9 | N/A | |
Independent | Leonard Ernest Heath | 187 | 9.4 | N/A | |
Turnout | 2,027 | 50.47 | +6.77 | ||
Registered electors | 4,016 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Dorchester South edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Molly Rennie * | 1,134 | 60.6 | +0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robin Potter * | 977 | – | ||
Conservative | William Roy Heeler | 540 | 28.9 | –11.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Thomas Alexander Anderson | 485 | 25.9 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,887 | 56.55 | +7.15 | ||
Registered electors | 3,337 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing |
Dorchester West edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | David Trevor Jones * | 923 | 51.2 | +13.5 | |
Independent | David John Barrett * | 731 | 40.6 | +3.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Taylor | 597 | – | ||
Conservative | Innes Macdonald Robertson | 366 | 20.3 | +2.5 | |
Labour Co-op | Victoria May Waddington-Black | 329 | 18.3 | +11.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Lee Rhodes | 322 | – | ||
Turnout | 1,825 | 50.64 | |||
Registered electors | 3,604 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
Independent hold | Swing |
Frome Valley edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Naomi Mary Penfold * | 754 | 70.0 | –10.1 | |
Green | Peter John Barton | 323 | 30.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 431 | 40.0 | –20.1 | ||
Turnout | 1,088 | 60.31 | +9.41 | ||
Registered electors | 1,804 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Halstock edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Tony Metford | unopposed | N/A | N/A | |
Registered electors | 1,534 | ||||
Independent gain from Independent |
Loders edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mark Brandon Roberts * | 459 | 61.8 | –4.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Charlotte Fleischmann | 283 | 38.1 | +4.4 | |
Majority | 176 | 23.7 | –8.9 | ||
Turnout | 760 | 51.74 | |||
Registered electors | 1,469 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Lyme Regis edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Daryl Whane Turner * | 716 | 45.7 | +16.2 | |
Conservative | George Symonds | 654 | – | ||
Independent | Patrick William James Hicks * | 578 | 36.9 | +6.2 | |
Independent | Owen Keith Lovell | 506 | 32.3 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Margaret Ann Sargant | 504 | 32.2 | –7.7 | |
Turnout | 1,594 | 53.49 | +5.69 | ||
Registered electors | 2,980 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing |
Maiden Newton edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Gillian Mary Haynes | 523 | 56.4 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | David Murray Cuckson | 217 | 23.4 | N/A | |
Labour | David Machin | 188 | 20.3 | N/A | |
Turnout | 945 | 56.93 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 1,660 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Marshwood Vale edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Michael Disney Robinson * | 572 | 67.5 | +5.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Howard John Thomas | 276 | 32.5 | –5.5 | |
Majority | 296 | 34.9 | +11.0 | ||
Turnout | 863 | 60.95 | +10.15 | ||
Registered electors | 1,416 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Netherbury edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Anthony Paul Robin Alford * | 436 | 55.1 | –12.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Edward Timothy Colfox | 356 | 44.9 | +12.3 | |
Majority | 80 | 10.1 | –24.7 | ||
Turnout | 818 | 50.12 | +14.92 | ||
Registered electors | 1,632 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Owermoigne edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Teresa Mary Seall * | 909 | 56.4 | +0.9 | |
Conservative | Peter Jonathon Stein | 705 | – | ||
Labour | Gerald Thomas Harold Napper | 527 | 32.7 | +19.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Henry Armstrong | 511 | 31.7 | – | |
Turnout | 1,614 | 52.35 | +1.85 | ||
Registered electors | 3,083 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Piddle Valley edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jacqueline Ann Cuff | 707 | 76.0 | –9.0 | |
Labour | Joseph Michael Upton | 223 | 24.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 484 | 52.0 | –17.9 | ||
Turnout | 950 | 57.65 | +11.45 | ||
Registered electors | 1,648 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Puddletown edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Patrick Gordon Cooke * | 568 | 51.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Teresa Catherine James | 352 | 31.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Paul David Poser | 191 | 17.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 216 | 19.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 1,115 | 55.95 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 1,993 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Queen Thorne edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Robert Andrew Gould * | 721 | 75.4 | –6.1 | |
Independent | Andrew Stephen Leppard | 235 | 24.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 486 | 50.8 | –12.2 | ||
Turnout | 962 | 57.85 | +12.85 | ||
Registered electors | 1,663 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Sherborne East edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Terence Peter Farmer * | 836 | 47.7 | +0.9 | |
Conservative | Dominic Charles Elliot * | 717 | – | ||
Liberal Democrats | Michael John Sandy | 475 | 27.1 | +10.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Guy Justin Patterson | 386 | – | ||
Green | Jenny Susan Greene | 277 | 15.8 | –9.6 | |
Labour | Robert James Bygrave | 250 | 14.3 | +3.5 | |
UKIP | Oliver Marshall Chisholm | 236 | 13.5 | N/A | |
Labour | Graham Parish | 185 | – | ||
Turnout | 1,778 | 50.97 | +8.47 | ||
Registered electors | 3,488 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Sherborne West edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Peter Robert Shorland * | 889 | 50.5 | –14.3 | |
Conservative | Marjorie Snowden * | 781 | – | ||
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Katherine Fone | 500 | 28.4 | –6.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Russell Jonathan Willson | 329 | – | ||
Labour | Kathryn Parish | 321 | 18.2 | N/A | |
UKIP | Peter Jenkins | 271 | 15.4 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,776 | 50.34 | +8.14 | ||
Registered electors | 3,528 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Winterborne St Martin edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Stephen John Slade * | 634 | 76.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Richard John Baker | 197 | 23.7 | N/A | |
Turnout | 851 | 50.12 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 1,698 | ||||
Independent hold | Swing |
Yetminster edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Margaret Rose Lawrence * | 478 | 58.7 | +3.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Josephine Jones | 337 | 41.3 | –3.6 | |
Majority | 141 | 17.3 | +7.0 | ||
Turnout | 826 | 61.05 | +7.65 | ||
Registered electors | 1,353 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
By-elections between 2011 and 2015 edit
Cam Vale edit
A by-election was held for the Cam Vale ward of West Dorset District Council on 2 May 2013 following the death of Conservative councillor Richard Jungius.[2]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Christopher Lionel John Loder | 335 | 43.0 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael John Sandy | 252 | 32.3 | N/A | |
UKIP | Peter Jenkins | 192 | 24.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 83 | 10.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 53 | N/A | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References edit
- General
- "West Dorset District Results". dorsetforyou.com. West Dorset District Council. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- Specific
- ^ "2011 West Dorset District Council election results". dorsetforyou.com. West Dorset District Council. Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ "Councillor served with distinction". Western Daily Press. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2016.[dead link]
- ^ "Youngest councillor joins West Dorset after by-election win". Blackmore Vale. 17 May 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2016.[dead link]