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Mid Dorset and North Poole (UK Parliament constituency)
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| Mid Dorset and North Poole County constituency |
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| Mid Dorset and North Poole shown within Dorset, and Dorset shown within England | |
| Created: | 1997 |
| MP: | Annette Brooke |
| Party: | Liberal Democrat |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Dorset |
| EP constituency: | South West England |
Mid Dorset and North Poole is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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The constituency covers the north of Poole in the east, and extends into rural Dorset in the west. A surprise gain for the Liberal Democrats in 2001, it swung strongly in their favour in 2005.
In the 2006 boundary changes, the historic market town of Wimborne Minster became part of the constituency. For a brief time there was talk that the constituency would be renamed "Wimborne and Wareham" to acknowledge Wimborne now being the largest town in the constituency.
- Constituency created (1997)
| Year | Member | Party | |
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| 1997 | Christopher Fraser | Conservative | |
| 2001 | Annette Brooke | Liberal Democrat | |
| General Election 2005: Mid Dorset and North Poole | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Annette Brooke | 22,000 | 48.7 | +6.7 | |
| Conservative | Simon Hayes | 16,518 | 36.6 | −4.5 | |
| Labour | Philip Murray | 5,221 | 11.6 | −3.9 | |
| UK Independence | Avril King | 1,420 | 3.1 | +1.7 | |
| Majority | 5,482 | 12.1 | |||
| Turnout | 45,159 | 68.5 | +2.9 | ||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | +5.6 | |||
| General Election 2001: Mid Dorset and North Poole | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Annette Brooke | 18,358 | 42.0 | +2.7 | |
| Conservative | Christopher Fraser | 17,974 | 41.1 | +0.4 | |
| Labour | James Selby Bennett | 6,765 | 15.5 | -0.3 | |
| UK Independence | Jeff Mager | 621 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 384 | 0.9 | |||
| Turnout | 43,718 | 65.6 | -9.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
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| Conservative |
Bournemouth East • Bournemouth West • Bridgwater • Christchurch • Cotswold • Devizes • East Devon • Forest of Dean • North Dorset • North Wiltshire • Poole • Salisbury • South West Devon • Tewkesbury • Tiverton and Honiton • Torridge and West Devon • Totnes • Wells • West Dorset • Westbury • Weston-super-Mare • Woodspring |
| Liberal Democrat |
Bath • Bristol West • Cheltenham • Falmouth and Camborne • Mid Dorset and North Poole • North Cornwall • North Devon • Northavon • Somerton and Frome • South East Cornwall • St Ives • Taunton • Teignbridge • Torbay • Truro and St Austell • Yeovil |
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| South West England European constituency |
Conservative (3) • UKIP (2) • Liberal Democrats (1) • Labour (1) |
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