Dorset County Council election, 2017

4 May 2017

All 46 seats to Dorset County Council 24 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Conservative	Liberal Democrat
Seats before	27	12

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Labour	UKIP
Seats before	5	1

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

TBD

The 2017 Dorset County Council election is scheduled to take place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom.^[1] All 46 councillors will be elected from 40 electoral divisions, which will return either one or two county councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office.

Boundary changes to the electoral divisions will take effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Upcoming elections & referendums". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
↑ "The Dorset (Electoral Changes) Order 2016". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
↑ "Dorset County Council". Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 16 September 2016.

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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