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

Blackmore Vale
ward
Dorset Council.
Population4,549
Major settlementsBlackmore Vale
Current ward
Created2019 (2019)
CouncillorStephen Murcer (Conservative)
Number of councillors1

Geography

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The Blackmore Vale ward is in rural North Dorset,[2] and contains the civil parishes of Fifehead Neville, Hazelbury Bryan, Ibberton, Lydlinch, Mappowder, Okeford Fitzpaine, Pulham, Shillingstone, Stoke Wake and Woolland.[3]

It is named after the Blackmore Vale, but contains only a part of the vale, other parts of which are covered by the Beacon, Gillingham, Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants, Stalbridge and Marnhull and Sturminster Newton wards.[3]

Councillors

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Election Councillors
2019 Pauline Hannah Batstone

(Conservative)

2024 Stephen Murcer

(Conservative)

Election

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2024 Dorset Council election: Blackmore Vale (1 seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stephen Murcer 637 50.3 −11.5
Liberal Democrats Ian Philip Suter 468 37.0 +22.4
Green Vicki Elcoate 161 12.7 New
Turnout 1,266 35.09
Conservative hold Swing
2019 Dorset Council election: Blackmore Vale (1 seat)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Pauline Hannah Batstone 912 61.8
UKIP Bill Woodhouse 224 15.2
Liberal Democrats Ian De Carteret Edlin 215 14.6
Labour Kevin Thomas James Shillington 124 8.4
Majority 688 45.3
Turnout 40.70
Conservative win (new seat)

References

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  1. ^ "Blackmore Vale (Ward, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  2. ^ "Area profile for Blackmore Vale - 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.

See also

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