East Dorset District Council election, 2015

Map of the results of the 2015 East Dorset District Council election. Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in yellow and independents in grey.

The 2015 East Dorset District Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of East Dorset District Council in Dorset, England. The whole council was up for election after boundary changes reduced the number of seats by seven.^[1] The Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.^[2]

Background

Before the election the Conservatives controlled the council with 30 councillors, while the Liberal Democrats on six seats were the only other party on the council.^[3] However, in December 2014 the former leader of Dorset County Council councillor Spencer Flower was suspended from the Conservative party after being charged by police and both Flower and his wife Toni Coombs stood for re-election as independents at the 2015 election.^[4] As they were the only candidates in Verwood West ward they were elected without opposition.^[4]

In three other wards, Crane, Handley Vale and Verwood East, the Conservative candidates were also unopposed.^[4] This meant 12 wards had elections in 2015 with a total of 66 candidates contesting them.^[4]

Boundary changes since the last election in 2011 reduced the number of councillors from 36 to 29.^[1] These changes also reduced the number of wards to 16, with four wards electing three councillors, five electing two and seven electing one.^[5]

Election result

The Conservatives remained in control of the council with 24 of the 29 seats.^[2] The only three contested seats that were not won by the Conservatives, were taken by the Liberal Democrats, who won both seats in Wimborne Minster, as well as one seat in Colehill East.^[6]

Ward results

References

Council elections in Dorset
Dorset County Council	1889 1892 1895 1898 1901 1904 1907 1910 1913 1919 1922 1925 1928 1931 1934 1937 1946 1949 1952 1955 1958 1961 1964 1967 1970 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017
Bournemouth Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1996 1998 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Christchurch Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
East Dorset District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
North Dorset District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Poole Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1996 1998 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Purbeck District Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015
West Dorset District Council	1973 1976 1979 1983 1984 1986 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
Weymouth and Portland Borough Council	1973 1976 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016
See also: Wards Boundary changes

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