See also the election results for Dorchester Town Council and other town and parish councils
The results for the Dorset Council elections started to come in from 1PM Friday afternoon (Friday 3 May) with predominantly Conservative lead from the onset. However independents have said they are now a ‘force to be reckoned with’ on the new Dorset Council as they come from wards across Dorset: Portland, Dorchester and Chickerell.
CON – 43
GRN – 4
IND – 4
LAB – 2
LIB – 29
UKIP – 0
Average turnout of 37.9%. The ward with the lowest turnout was Westham with 29.61%.
There is no overall control in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP).
HERE ARE THE RESULTS:
Beacon – Conservative Jane Somper – 1,020 votes
Beaminster – Conservative Rebecca Knox – 678 votes
Blackmore Vale – Conservative Pauline Hanna Bastone – 912 votes
Blandford – Conservatives Noc Lacey-Clarke – 1495 votes & Byron Robet Quayle – 1573 votes
Bridport – Lib Dem Sarah Williams – 1891 votes, Green candidate Kelvin Clayton – 1606 votes & Lib Dem David Bolwell – 1489 votes
Chalk Valleys – Conservative Jill Haynes – 810 votes
Charminster St Mary’s – Liberal Democrat David Taylor – 846 votes
Chesil Bank – Conservative Mark Brandon Roberts – 595 votes
Chickerell – Conservative Jean Dunseith – 766 votes & John Howard Worth – 564 votes
Colehill & Wimborne Monster East – Liberal Democrat Janet Dover – 1616 votes
Corfe Mullen – Liberal Democrat Mike Barron – 1388 votes & Conservative Paul Ronald Harrison – 1292 votes
Cranborne & Alderholt – Liberal Democrat David Lawrence Tooke – 689 votes
Cranborne Chase – Conservative Piers Brown – 778 votes
Crossways – Conservative Nick Ireland – 746 votes
Dorchester East – Liberal Democrats Mary Elizabeth Rennie – 1755 votes & Enid Stella Jones – 1739 votes
Dorchester Poundbury – Liberal Democrat Richard Martin Biggs – 457 votes
Dorchester West – Liberal Democrat Andrew Canning – 1221 votes & Independent Les Fry – 1064 votes
Eggardon – Conservative Anthony Paul Robin Alford – 735 votes
Ferndown North – Conservatives Cathy Lugg – 1312 votes & Mike Parkes – 1221 votes
Ferndown South – Conservatives Julie Robinson – 765 votes & Rod Adkins – 689 votes
Gillingham – Conservatives Belinda Ridout – 1799 votes, Valerie Pothecary – 1682 votes & David Walsh – 1626 votes
Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants – Conservative Sherry Jespersen – 854 votes
Littlemore & Preston – Conservatives Tony Farrar – 1078 votes & Louie O’Leary – 988 votes
Lyme & Charmouth – Conservative Daryl Whane Turner – 756 votes
Lytchett Matravers & Upton – Conservative Bill Pipe – 1472 votes, Lib Dem Andrew Starr – 1441 votes & Lib Dem Alex Brenton – 1339 votes
Marshwood Vale – Conservative Simon John Christopher – 752 votes
Melcombe Regis – Green candidate Jon Orrell – 691 votes
Portland – Independent Rob Hughes – 1052 votes, Labour Paul Kimber – 910 votes & Independent Susan Hocking – 894 votes
Puddletown & Lower Winterborne – Conservative Emma Jayne Parker – 789 votes
Radipole – Liberal Democrats Peter Barrow – 1346 votes & David Gray – 1234 votes
Rodwell & Wyke – Green candidate Clare Sutton – 2033 votes, Labour Kate Wheeler – 1403 votes & Green candidate Brian Heatley – 1258 votes
Shaftesbury Town – Liberal Democrats Derek Beer – 1177 votes & Tim Cook – 682 votes
Sherborne East – Liberal Democrat Jon Andrews – 842 votes
Sherborne Rural – Liberal Democrat Robin Andrew Shane Legg – 902 votes
Sherborne West – Liberal Democrat Matt Hall – 759 votes
South East Purbeck – Conservative Cherry Louise Brooked – 499 votes
St Leonards & St Ives – Conservatives Barry Goringe – 1406 votes & Ray Bryan – 1363 votes
Stalbridge & Marnhull – Conservative Graham Carr-Jones – 837 votes
Stour & Allen Vale – Conservative Robin David Cook – 606 votes
Sturminster Newton – Conservative Carole Yvonne Jones – 442 votes
Swanage – Conservatives – Gary Suttle – 1546 votes & William Trite – 1457 votes
Upwey & Broadwey – Liberal Democrat Howard Richard Legg – 555 votes
Verwood – Conservatives Spencer Flower – 1946 votes, Toni Coombs – 2083 votes & Simon Gibson – 2235 votes
Wareham – Liberal Democrats Beryl Ezzard – 1837 votes & Ryan Holloway – 1308 votes
West Moors & Three Legged Cross – Conservatives Michael Dyer – 1323 votes & David Shortell – 1412 votes
West Parley – Conservative Andrew Charles Parry – 611 votes
West Purbeck – Conservatives Laura Miller – 1142 votes & Peter Wharf – 1064 votes
Westham – Liberal Democrats Ryan Hope – 895 votes & Gill Taylor – 836 votes
Wimborne Minster – Liberal Democrats Shane Bartlett – 1296 votes & David Morgan – 1155 votes
Winterborne & Broadmayne – Liberal Democrat Roland Tarr – 799 votes
Winterborne North – Conservative Andrew Kerby – 557 votes
Yetminster – Conservative Mary Penfold – 910 votes
