Boundary changes – proposals for Bournemouth, Poole Christchurch & Dorset

By Lisa Northover

The Bounderies commission has today published the proposals for the new constituency bounderies for England and Wales, I have picked out the relevant information for Bournemouth Poole and surrounding constituencies.

Bournemouth East

The electorates of the unitary authorities of Poole and Bournemouth are such that it
is not possible to allocate a whole number
of constituencies to either – nor would the combined electorate enable us to allocate a whole number of constituencies if we were

Bournemouth West

to consider them together. As the existing electorates of both Poole and Bournemouth West are too small, it is necessary to propose a reconfiguration of the wards within the unitary authorities with the consequence that amendments are also made to Bournemouth East, despite its electorate falling within 5% of the electoral quota.

Poole

Our proposed Poole constituency is similar to the existing constituency but extends north to incorporate Broadstone. Additionally, the wards of Branksome West and Newtown are transferred to our proposed Bournemouth West constituency, both to increase the electorate and in order that the town of Branksome is not divided between two constituencies. Change to the existing boundary between the constituencies of Bournemouth West and Bournemouth East is minimal, with the latter extending westwards to incorporate the ward of Winton East, to compensate for the electors who have been transferred to the former constituency.

We propose that the area surrounding Stapehill and West Parley is instead included in a constituency which combines the area surrounding the towns of Wareham, Bere Regis, and Wimborne Minster, currently located in the Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency, with the area surrounding Blandford Forum, currently located in the North Dorset constituency. Our proposed name for the resulting constituency is Blandford and Wimborne.

Blandford and Wimborne

In order to increase the electorate of
the existing Christchurch constituency, we propose its expansion. Due to the electoral and geographical size of the wards in the
area, we propose that it stretches northwards to incorporate Verwood and Alderholt, with which there are established communication links, rather than westwards to incorporate the area surrounding Stapehill and West Parley as at present.

Christchurch

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