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Cranborne Chase (ward)

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Cranborne Chase
ward
Dorset Council.
Population5,024
Major settlementsCranborne Chase
Current ward
Created2019 (2019)
CouncillorPiers Brown (Conservative)
Number of councillors1

Cranborne Chase is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council.[1]

Geography

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The Cranborne Chase ward is rural and covers the civil parishes of Crichel, Gussage All Saints, Gussage St Michael, Langton Long Blandford, Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, Tarrant Crawford, Tarrant Keyneston, Tarrant Launceston, Tarrant Monkton, Tarrant Rushton and Witchampton.[2][3]

The ward is named after the Cranborne Chase chalk plateau, but does not cover the entirety of the plateau, which straddles the borders of Hampshire and Wiltshire as well as the neighbouring Dorset electoral wards of Beacon, Cranborne and Alderholt and Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants.[3]

Councillors

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Election Councillors
2019 Piers Brown[4]

(Conservative)

2024

Election

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2019 Dorset Council election: Cranborne Chase (1 seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Piers Brown 778 65.6
Labour Dennis Wardleworth 208 17.5
UKIP Stephen Mark Kelly 200 16.9
Majority
Turnout 36.70
Conservative win (new seat)
2024 Dorset Council election: Cranborne Chase (1 seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Piers Brown* 634 65.4 −0.2
Liberal Democrats Tom Harding 194 20.0 New
Labour Louise Claire Cooper 142 14.6 −2.9
Turnout 970 30.24
Conservative hold Swing

References

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  1. ^ "Cranborne Chase (Ward, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  2. ^ "Area profile for Cranborne Chase - Dorset Council". gi.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  3. ^ a b "Map referred to in the Dorset (Electoral Changes) Order 2018" (PDF). Local Government Boundary Commission for England. 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Councillor details - Councillor Piers Brown". www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk. 2024-02-24. Retrieved 2024-02-24.

See also

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