Political change across Dorset as election results announced

The UK General Election is over and Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party has won a landslide majority in Parliament, but which candidates were elected as MPs in Dorset and the BCP conurbation?

Notably, Lib Dem’s Vikki Slade unseated the incumbent Michael Tomlinson, who had been MP for the area since 2015, and Labour’s Tom Hayes defeated Tobias Ellwood in Bournemouth East, which the Conservative candidate has represented since 2005.

Results for Poole had not been announced at time of writing due to a recount.

Here are the results:

• John Dowling – Social Democratic – 1061 votes
• Candice Johnson-Cole – Labour – 4566 votes
• Ben Pantling – Green – 2355 votes
• Vikki Slade – Liberal Democrat – 21442 – ELECTED
• Michael Tomlinson – Conservative and Unionist – 20090

• Robin Thomas Adamson – Reform UK – 8961 votes
• Christopher Robert Chope – Conservative and Unionist – 16941 votes – ELECTED
• Mike Cox – Liberal Democrat – 9486 votes
• Susan Graham – Green – 1900 votes
• Joanna Claire Howard – Labour – 7762 votes
• Sasha Jolliffe Yasawi – Animal Welfare – People, Animals, Environment – 335 votes
• Simon Jonathan McCormack – Independent – 1728 votes
• Trevor Parsons – Social Democratic – 59 votes
• Steve Unwin – UKIP – 163 votes