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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-dorset-electoral-changes-order-2018/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111173961",
  "legislation_title": "The Dorset (Electoral Changes) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-dorset-electoral-changes-order-2018",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Names of wards and number of councillors",
  "text": "(1)\nName of district ward\n(2)\nNumber of councillors\nBeacon\n1\nBeaminster\n1\nBlackmore Vale\n1\nBlandford\n2\nBridport\n3\nChalk Valleys\n1\nCharminster St Mary’s\n1\nChesil Bank\n1\nChickerell\n2\nColehill & Wimborne Minster East\n2\nCorfe Mullen\n2\nCranborne & Alderholt\n1\nCranborne Chase\n1\nCrossways\n1\nDorchester East\n2\nDorchester Poundbury\n1\nDorchester West\n2\nEggardon\n1\nFerndown North\n2\nFerndown South\n2\nGillingham\n3\nHill Forts & Upper Tarrants\n1\nLittlemoor & Preston\n2\nLyme & Charmouth\n1\nLytchett Matravers & Upton\n3\nMarshwood Vale\n1\nMelcombe Regis\n1\nPortland\n3\nPuddletown & Lower Winterborne\n1\nRadipole\n2\nRodwell & Wyke\n3\nShaftesbury Town\n2\nSherborne East\n1\nSherborne Rural\n1\nSherborne West\n1\nSouth East Purbeck\n1\nSt Leonards & St Ives\n2\nStalbridge & Marnhull\n1\nStour & Allen Vale\n1\nSturminster Newton\n1\nSwanage\n2\nUpwey & Broadwey\n1\nVerwood\n3\nWareham\n2\nWest Moors & Three Legged Cross\n2\nWest Parley\n1\nWest Purbeck\n2\nWestham\n2\nWimborne Minster\n2\nWinterborne & Broadmayne\n1\nWinterborne North\n1\nYetminster\n1",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111173961/schedule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:03:37.353286+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}