Cranborne Chase (ward)

Cranborne Chase is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council.^[1]

Cranborne Chase
ward Dorset Council
Population	5,024
Major settlements	Cranborne Chase
Current ward
Created	2019 (2019)
Councillor	Piers Brown (Conservative)
Number of councillors	1

Geography

The Cranborne Chase ward is rural and covers the civil parishes of Crichel, Gussage All Saints, Gussage St Michael, Langton Long Blandford, Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, Tarrant Crawford, Tarrant Keyneston, Tarrant Launceston, Tarrant Monkton, Tarrant Rushton and Witchampton.^[2][3]

The ward is named after the Cranborne Chase chalk plateau, but does not cover the entirety of the plateau, which straddles the borders of Hampshire and Wiltshire as well as the neighbouring Dorset electoral wards of Beacon, Cranborne and Alderholt and Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants.^[3]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2019		Piers Brown[4] (Conservative)
2024

Election

2019 Dorset Council election

2019 Dorset Council election: Cranborne Chase (1 seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Piers Brown	778	65.6
	Labour	Dennis Wardleworth	208	17.5
	UKIP	Stephen Mark Kelly	200	16.9
Majority
Turnout				36.70
	Conservative win (new seat)

2024 Dorset Council election

2024 Dorset Council election: Cranborne Chase (1 seat)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Piers Brown*	634	65.4	−0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Tom Harding	194	20.0	New
	Labour	Louise Claire Cooper	142	14.6	−2.9
Turnout			970	30.24
	Conservative hold		Swing