South Dorset

E402245

UK parliamentary constituency

South Dorset is a UK parliamentary constituency in the county of Dorset, represented in the House of Commons and covering coastal and rural communities including towns such as Weymouth and Portland.

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Label	Occurrences
South Dorset canonical	2

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	UK parliamentary constituency ⓘ
abolished	1918 ⓘ
borderedBy	Mid Dorset and North Poole ⓘ North Dorset ⓘ Poole ⓘ West Dorset ⓘ West Dorset ⓘ surface form: West Dorset (pre-2010 boundaries)
contains	Chickerell ⓘ Dorchester neighborhood of Boston ⓘ surface form: Dorchester (part) Littlemoor ⓘ Portland ⓘ Preston (Dorset) ⓘ Weymouth ⓘ Wool ⓘ Wyke Regis ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
county	Dorset ⓘ
created	1885 ⓘ
electorateType	borough constituency ⓘ
elects	one Member of Parliament ⓘ
formerGoverningBody	West Dorset District Council ⓘ surface form: Dorset County Council Dorset Council ⓘ surface form: Weymouth and Portland Borough Council
governingBody	Dorset Council ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	coastal communities ⓘ rural communities ⓘ
hasMainTown	Portland ⓘ Weymouth ⓘ
hasParliamentaryRepresentationSince	1950 (continuous) ⓘ
hasVotingSystem	first past the post ⓘ
includesFeature	Isle of Portland ⓘ Jurassic Coast ⓘ Weymouth Bay ⓘ
isCoastal	true ⓘ
locatedIn	Dorset ⓘ
partOf	British Parliament ⓘ surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom
previouslyPartOf	Dorset county constituency ⓘ
recreated	1950 ⓘ
region	southwest England ⓘ surface form: South West England
representedIn	House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Worth Matravers → parliamentaryConstituency → South Dorset ⓘ

Corfe Castle village → parliamentaryConstituency → South Dorset ⓘ