Poole (UK Parliament constituency)

Poole is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Neil Duncan-Jordan, a Labour politician.^{[n 2]}

Poole
Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Poole in South West England
County	Dorset
Electorate	72,162 (2023)[1]
Major settlements	Poole
Current constituency
Created	1950
Member of Parliament	Neil Duncan-Jordan (Labour)
Seats	One
Created from	East Dorset
1455–1885
Seats	Two (1455–1868), One (1868–1885)
Replaced by	East Dorset

History

The first version of the Poole constituency existed from 1455 until 1885. During this period its exact status was a parliamentary borough, sending two burgesses to Westminster per year, except during its last 17 years when its representation was reduced to one member.

During its abeyance, most of Poole was in the East Dorset seat and, since its recreation in 1950, its area has been reduced as the harbour town's population has increased.

Boundaries

Map of previous boundaries

1950–1983: The Municipal Borough of Poole.

1983–1997: The Borough of Poole wards of Broadstone, Canford Cliffs, Canford Heath, Creekmoor, Hamworthy, Harbour, Newtown, Oakdale, Parkstone, and Penn Hill.

1997–2010: The Borough of Poole wards of Bourne Valley, Canford Cliffs, Hamworthy, Harbour, Newtown, Oakdale, Parkstone, and Penn Hill.

2010–2019: The Borough of Poole wards of Branksome West, Canford Cliffs, Creekmoor, Hamworthy East, Hamworthy West, Newtown, Oakdale, Parkstone, Penn Hill, and Poole Town.

2019–2024: The Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council wards of Alderney and Bourne Valley (part), Broadstone (very small part), Canford Cliffs (nearly all), Canford Heath (very small part), Creekmoor, Hamworthy, Newtown and Heatherlands (most), Oakdale, Parkstone, Penn Hill and Poole Town^[2]

2024-present: Further to the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, enacted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, from the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):

• The District of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole wards of: Canford Cliffs; Creekmoor; Hamworthy; Newtown & Heatherlands; Oakdale; Parkstone; Penn Hill; Poole Town.^[3]

Minor changes following re-organisation of local authorities and wards in Dorset.

Constituency profile

The borough is an economically very diverse borough. In the centre and north are a significant minority of Output Areas which in 2001 had high rankings in the Index of Multiple Deprivation, contributing in 2012 with the remainder to producing for Poole the highest unemployment of the constituencies in the county.^[4][5] However, Canford Cliffs is epitomised by one sub-neighbourhood, Sandbanks with its multimillion-pound properties, the coastline area has been dubbed as "Britain's Palm Beach" by the national media.^[6] Alongside oil extraction, insurance, care, retail and customer service industries choosing the town as their base tourism contributes to overall a higher income than the national average, however the divergence is not statistically significant and the size of homes varies extensively.^[5][7]

Members of Parliament

MPs 1455–1629

• Borough established 1455, returning two members

Parliament	First member	Second member
1510	No names known[8]
1512	Richard Phelips	Ralph Worsley[8]
1515	Richard Phelips	?[8]
1523	?
1529	William Thornhill	William Biddlecombe[8]
1536	?William Biddlecombe	?[8]
1539	?William Biddlecombe	?[8]
1542	Oliver Lawrence	John Carew[8]
1545	Oliver Lawrence	John Harward[8]
1547	John Hannam	John Harward[8]
1553 (Mar)	William Newman	Thomas White[8]
1553 (Oct)	Anthony Dillington	John Scryvin
Parliament of 1554	William Wightman	Richard Shaw
Parliament of 1554–1555	Anthony Dillington	Andrew Hourde
Parliament of 1555	Robert Whitt	John Phelips
Parliament of 1558	Thomas Goodwin	Thomas Phelips
Parliament of 1559	Walter Haddon	Humphrey Mitchel
Parliament of 1563–1567	William Green
Parliament of 1571	George Carleton	William Newman
Parliament of 1572–1581	William Green	John Hastings
Parliament of 1584–1585	Francis Mills	Thomas Vincent
Parliament of 1586–1587		William Fleetwood, junior
Parliament of 1588–1589	Henry Ashley	Edward Man
Parliament of 1593	James Orrenge
Parliament of 1597–1598	Roger Mawdeley
Parliament of 1601	Robert Miller	Thomas Billet
Parliament of 1604–1611	Thomas Robarts	Edward Man
Addled Parliament (1614)	Sir Walter Erle	Sir Thomas Walsingham, junior
Parliament of 1621–1622		Sir George Horsey
Happy Parliament (1624–1625)		Edward Pitt
Useless Parliament (1625)	John Pyne	Sir John Cooper
Parliament of 1625–1626		Christopher Erle
Parliament of 1628–1629		Sir John Cooper
No Parliament summoned 1629–1640

MPs 1640–1868

Year	First member[9]		First party	Second member[9]		Second party
April 1640		John Pyne	Parliamentarian		William Constantine	Royalist
November 1640
September 1642				Constantine disabled from sitting – seat vacant
1645					George Skutt
December 1648				Skutt excluded in Pride's Purge – seat vacant
1653	Poole was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament
1654		Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper[10]		Poole had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate
1656		Edward Boteler
January 1659		Colonel John Fitzjames[11]			Samuel Bond
May 1659		John Pyne		One seat vacant
April 1660		George Cooper			Sir Walter Erle
1661		Sir John Fitzjames			(Sir) John Morton[12]
1670		Thomas Trenchard
February 1673		George Cooper
March 1673		Thomas Strangways
1679		Henry Trenchard			Thomas Chafin
1685		William Ettrick
1689		Henry Trenchard			Sir Nathaniel Napier
1690		Sir John Trenchard	Whig
1695		Lord Ashley
1698		William Joliffe			Sir William Phippard
1705		Samuel Weston
1708		William Lewen	Tory		Thomas Ridge[13]	Whig
1710		Sir William Phippard
1711					Sir William Lewen	Tory
1713		George Trenchard	Whig
1722					Thomas Ridge	Whig
1727					Denis Bond[14]
1732					Thomas Wyndham	Whig
1741		Joseph Gulston			Thomas Missing
1747					George Trenchard	Whig
1754					Colonel Sir Richard Lyttelton[15]
1761					Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Calcraft
1765		Joseph Gulston
1768		Joshua Mauger
1774					Major-General Sir Eyre Coote
1780		Joseph Gulston			William Morton Pitt
1784		Michael Angelo Taylor
1790		Colonel Hon. Charles Stuart[16]			Benjamin Lester
1791		Michael Angelo Taylor
1796		Colonel Hon. Charles Stuart			John Jeffery
1801		George Garland
1808		Sir Richard Bickerton
1809					Benjamin Lester Lester	Whig[17]
1812		Michael Angelo Taylor	Whig[17]
1818		John Dent	Non-partisan[17]
1826		Hon. William Ponsonby	Whig[17]
1831		Sir John Byng	Whig[17]
January 1835					Charles Augustus Tulk	Whig[17]
May 1835		Hon. George Byng	Whig[17][18][19][20][21][22]
1837		Hon. Charles Ponsonby	Whig[17][22][23][24][20]		George Philips	Whig[25][17][26][27][22][19][20]
1847		George Richard Robinson	Peelite[25]
1850		Henry Danby Seymour	Whig
1852					George Woodroffe Franklyn	Conservative
1859			Liberal
1865					Charles Waring	Liberal
1868	Representation reduced to one Member

MPs 1868–1885

Election	Member[9]		Party
1868		Arthur Guest	Conservative
1874		Charles Waring	Liberal
May 1874 by-election		Hon. Evelyn Ashley	Liberal
1880		Charles Schreiber	Conservative
1884 by-election		William James Harris	Conservative
1885	Constituency abolished

MPs since 1950

Election	Member[9]		Party	Notes
1950		Mervyn Wheatley	Conservative
1951		Richard Pilkington	Conservative
1964		Oscar Murton	Conservative	Chairman of Ways and Means 1976–79
1979		John Ward	Conservative
1997		Sir Robert Syms	Conservative
2024		Neil Duncan-Jordan	Labour

Elections

Elections in the 2020s

General election 2024: Poole^[28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil Duncan-Jordan[29]	14,168	31.84	+11.1
	Conservative	Robert Syms[30]	14,150	31.80	–27.0
	Reform UK	Andrei Dragotoniu[31]	7,429	16.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Oliver Walters[32]	5,507	12.4	–2.9
	Green	Sarah Ward[33]	2,218	5.0	+1.6
	Independent	Joe Cronin	698	1.6	N/A
	UKIP	Leanne Barnes	325	0.7	N/A
Majority			18	0.04	N/A
Turnout			44,495	61.4	−6.2
Registered electors			72,509
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	19.1

Elections in the 2010s

2019 notional result[34]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	28,695	58.8
	Labour	10,087	20.7
	Liberal Democrats	7,490	15.3
	Green	1,681	3.4
	Others	848	1.7
Turnout		48,801	67.6
Electorate		72,162

General election 2019: Poole^[35]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Syms	29,599	58.7	+0.8
	Labour Co-op	Sue Aitkenhead	10,483	20.7	−8.7
	Liberal Democrats	Victoria Collins	7,819	15.5	+6.6
	Green	Barry Harding-Rathbone[37]	1,702	3.4	+0.8
	Independent	David Young[n 3]	848	1.7	N/A
Majority			19,116	38.0	+9.5
Turnout			50,451	68.2	+0.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.8

General election 2017: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Syms	28,888	57.9	+7.8
	Labour	Katie Taylor	14,679	29.4	+16.5
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Plummer	4,433	8.9	−2.9
	Green	Adrian Oliver	1,299	2.6	−2.0
	Demos Direct Initiative	Marty Caine	551	1.1	N/A
Majority			14,209	28.5	−4.8
Turnout			49,850	67.5	+2.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 2015: Poole^[38]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Syms	23,745	50.1	+2.6
	UKIP	David Young[39]	7,956	16.8	+11.5
	Labour	Helen Rosser	6,102	12.9	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Eades	5,572	11.8	−19.8
	Green	Adrian Oliver[40]	2,198	4.6	N/A
	Poole People	Mark Howell[41]	1,766	3.7	N/A
	Independent	Ian Northover	54	0.1	−0.3
Majority			15,789	33.3	+17.4
Turnout			47,393	65.3	−8.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 2010: Poole^[42][43]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Syms	22,532	47.5	+4.1
	Liberal Democrats	Phillip Eades	14,991	31.6	+2.5
	Labour	Jason Sanderson	6,041	12.7	−10.0
	UKIP	Nick Wellstead	2,507	5.3	+1.8
	BNP	David Holmes	1,188	2.5	+1.2
	Independent	Ian Northover	177	0.4	N/A
Majority			7,541	15.9	+1.1
Turnout			47,436	73.4	+9.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.8

Elections in the 2000s

General election 2005: Poole^[44]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Syms	17,571	43.4	−1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Plummer	11,583	28.6	+3.1
	Labour	Darren Brown	9,376	23.1	−3.8
	UKIP	John Barnes	1,436	3.5	+1.0
	BNP	Peter Pirnie	547	1.4	N/A
Majority			5,988	14.8	−3.4
Turnout			40,513	63.1	+2.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.4

General election 2001: Poole^[45]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Syms	17,710	45.1	+3.0
	Labour	David Watt	10,544	26.9	+5.3
	Liberal Democrats	Nick Westbrook	10,011	25.5	−5.3
	UKIP	John Bass	968	2.5	+1.5
Majority			7,166	18.2	+6.9
Turnout			39,233	60.7	−10.3
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1997: Poole^[46]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert Syms	19,726	42.1	−11.1
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Tetlow	14,428	30.8	−2.0
	Labour	Haydn R White	10,100	21.6	+10.6
	Referendum	John Riddington	1,932	4.1	N/A
	UKIP	Philip Tyler	487	1.0	N/A
	Natural Law	Jennifer Rosta	137	0.3	+0.2
Majority			5,298	11.3	−9.1
Turnout			46,810	71.0	−8.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	-4.6

General election 1992: Poole^[47][48]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ward	33,445	53.2	−4.3
	Liberal Democrats	BR Clements	20,614	32.8	+0.2
	Labour	Haydn R White	6,912	11.0	+1.1
	Ind. Conservative	M Steen	1,620	2.6	N/A
	Natural Law	AL Bailey	303	0.5	N/A
Majority			12,831	20.4	−4.5
Turnout			62,894	79.4	+1.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.3

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1987: Poole^[49]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ward	34,159	57.5	−0.8
	SDP	Robert Whitley	19,351	32.6	+2.0
	Labour	Michael Shutler	5,901	9.9	−0.9
Majority			14,808	24.9	−2.8
Turnout			59,411	77.5	+3.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.4

General election 1983: Poole^[50]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ward	30,358	58.3	+1.3
	Liberal	Brian Clements	15,929	30.6	+8.0
	Labour	Michael Castle	5,595	10.8	−11.6
	Servicemen & Citizen Association	A Foster	177	0.3	N/A
Majority			14,429	27.7	−6.9
Turnout			52,059	73.6	−4.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	-3.3

Elections in the 1970s

General election 1979: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ward	38,846	57.01
	Labour	DA Bell	15,291	22.44
	Liberal	B Sutton	14,001	20.55
Majority			23,555	34.57
Turnout			68,138	78.13
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election October 1974: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oscar Murton	28,982	46.15
	Liberal	Maxwell Goode	17,557	27.96
	Labour	GW Hobbs	16,262	25.89
Majority			11,425	18.19
Turnout			62,801	75.30
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election February 1974: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oscar Murton	31,156	46.04
	Liberal	Maxwell Goode	21,088	31.16
	Labour	GW Hobbs	15,434	22.81
Majority			10,068	14.88
Turnout			67,678	81.88
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1970: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oscar Murton	31,100	53.11
	Labour	Ian S Campbell	17,610	30.07
	Liberal	Geoffrey Maxwell Goode	9,846	16.81
Majority			13,490	23.04
Turnout			58,556	75.06
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1960s

General election 1966: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oscar Murton	25,451	47.59
	Labour	David A Sutton	19,630	36.71
	Liberal	Brian S Sherriff	8,394	15.70
Majority			5,821	10.88
Turnout			53,475	79.00
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1964: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oscar Murton	24,440	46.26
	Labour	Henry Toch	16,158	30.58
	Liberal	Herbert Charles Richard Ballam	12,234	23.16
Majority			8,282	15.68
Turnout			52,832	80.05
	Conservative hold		Swing

Elections in the 1950s

General election 1959: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Pilkington	26,956	52.84
	Labour	Alan Williams	15,325	30.04
	Liberal	James Charles Holland	8,735	17.12
Majority			11,631	22.80
Turnout			51,016	80.27
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1955: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Pilkington	26,594	53.86
	Labour	Frederick Charles Reeves	17,032	34.49
	Liberal	James Charles Holland	5,750	11.65
Majority			9,562	19.37
Turnout			49,376	80.94
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1951: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Pilkington	26,998	53.60
	Labour	Leonard Joseph Matchan	18,346	36.42
	Liberal	William Ridgway	5,029	9.98
Majority			8,652	17.18
Turnout			50,373	84.97
	Conservative hold		Swing

General election 1950: Poole

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mervyn Wheatley	24,344	49.37
	Labour	Evelyn King	17,831	36.16
	Liberal	William Ridgway	7,130	14.46
Majority			6,513	13.21
Turnout			49,305	87.10
	Conservative win (new seat)

Elections in the 1880s

By-election, 19 Apr 1884: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William James Harris	877	51.8	+1.6
	Liberal	Thomas Chatfield Clarke[52]	815	48.2	−1.6
Majority			62	3.6	+3.2
Turnout			1,692	85.3	−3.8
Registered electors			1,983
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.6

• Caused by Schreiber's death.

General election 1880: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Schreiber	854	50.2	+5.1
	Liberal	Charles Waring	848	49.8	−5.1
Majority			6	0.4	N/A
Turnout			1,702	89.1	+4.9
Registered electors			1,911
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+5.1

Elections in the 1870s

1874 Poole by-election^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Evelyn Ashley	631	50.4	−4.5
	Conservative	Ivor Guest	622	49.6	+4.5
Majority			9	0.8	−9.0
Turnout			1,253	82.1	−2.1
Registered electors			1,526
	Liberal hold		Swing	-4.5

• Caused by the election being declared void on petition, after "corrupt conduct and treating".^[53]

General election 1874: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Charles Waring	705	54.9	+7.4
	Conservative	Arthur Guest	580	45.1	−7.4
Majority			125	9.8	N/A
Turnout			1,285	84.2	−10.2
Registered electors			1,526
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+7.4

Elections in the 1860s

General election 1868: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Guest	623	52.5	+26.5
	Liberal	Charles Waring	563	47.5	−26.5
Majority			60	5.0	N/A
Turnout			1,186	94.4	+11.7
Registered electors			1,256
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing	+26.5

• Seat reduced to one member.

General election 1865: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henry Danby Seymour	258	37.7	+2.2
	Liberal	Charles Waring	248	36.3	+10.0
	Conservative	Stephen Lewin[54]	178	26.0	−12.2
Majority			70	10.3	N/A
Turnout			431 (est)	82.7 (est)	+14.7
Registered electors			521
	Liberal hold		Swing	+4.2
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing	+8.1

Elections in the 1850s

General election 1859: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George Woodroffe Franklyn	208	38.2	+0.2
	Liberal	Henry Danby Seymour	193	35.5	−6.9
	Liberal	William Taylor Haly	143	26.3	+6.6
Majority			15	2.8	−15.5
Turnout			376 (est)	68.0 (est)	+21.8
Registered electors			553
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.2
	Liberal hold		Swing	−3.5

General election 1857: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Henry Danby Seymour	211	42.4	N/A
	Conservative	George Woodroffe Franklyn	189	38.0	N/A
	Radical	William Taylor Haly[55][56]	98	19.7	N/A
Turnout			249 (est)	46.2 (est)	N/A
Registered electors			539
Majority			22	4.4	N/A
	Whig hold		Swing	N/A
Majority			91	18.3	N/A
	Conservative hold		Swing	N/A

General election 1852: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Henry Danby Seymour	Unopposed
	Conservative	George Woodroffe Franklyn	Unopposed
Registered electors			508
	Whig hold
	Conservative gain from Peelite

By-election, 24 September 1850: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Henry Danby Seymour	187	52.8	−6.4
	Conservative	John Savage[57]	167	47.2	+13.6
Majority			20	5.6	−17.9
Turnout			354	71.1	+2.6
Registered electors			498
	Whig gain from Peelite		Swing	−10.0

• Caused by Robinson's death.

Elections in the 1840s

General election 1847: Poole^[51]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Peelite	George Richard Robinson	240	33.6	+3.6
	Whig	George Philips	220	30.8	−2.6
	Whig	Edward John Hutchins	203	28.4	−8.2
	Radical	Montague Merryweather Turner[58][59]	52	7.3	N/A
Turnout			358 (est)	68.5 (est)	−18.9
Registered electors			522
Majority			20	2.8	N/A
	Peelite gain from Whig		Swing	+7.2
Majority			168	23.5	+20.1
	Whig hold		Swing	−2.2

General election 1841: Poole^[51][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Charles Ponsonby	231	36.6	+8.8
	Whig	George Philips	211	33.4	+7.5
	Conservative	George Pitt Rose [60]	189	30.0	−16.4
Majority			22	3.4	+1.7
Turnout			410 (est)	87.4 (est)	c. +9.3
Registered electors			469
	Whig hold		Swing	+8.5
	Whig hold		Swing	+7.9

Elections in the 1830s

General election 1837: Poole^[51][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	Charles Ponsonby	278	27.8	−10.9
	Whig	George Philips	259	25.9	−7.6
	Conservative	Henry Willoughby	242	24.2	+4.2
	Conservative	John Walsh	222	22.2	+14.5
Majority			17	1.7	−11.8
Turnout			504	78.1	c. +12.1
Registered electors			645
	Whig hold		Swing	−10.1
	Whig hold		Swing	−8.5

By-election, 21 May 1835: Poole^[51][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	George Byng	199	53.4	−18.8
	Conservative	Colquhoun Grant	174	46.6	+18.9
Majority			25	6.8	−6.7
Turnout			373	82.9	c. +16.9
Registered electors			450
	Whig hold		Swing	−18.9

• Caused by John Byng's elevation to the peerage, becoming 1st Earl of Strafford

General election 1835: Poole^[51][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	John Byng	230	38.7	+9.5
	Whig	Charles Augustus Tulk	199	33.5	+7.2
	Conservative	John Irving	119	20.0	N/A
	Conservative	T Bonar	46	7.7	N/A
Majority			80	13.5	+10.6
Turnout			c. 297	c. 66.0	c. −21.4
Registered electors			450
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1832: Poole^[51][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Benjamin Lester Lester	284	44.5
	Whig	John Byng	186	29.2
	Whig	Charles Augustus Tulk	168	26.3
Majority			18	2.9
Turnout			360	87.4
Registered electors			412
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

By-election, 6 October 1831: Poole^[17][61]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	John Byng	55	56.7
	Whig	Charles Augustus Tulk	42	43.3
Majority			13	13.4
Turnout			97	c. 60.6
Registered electors			c. 160
	Whig hold

• Caused by Ponsonby's resignation

General election 1831: Poole^[17][61]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Benjamin Lester Lester	Unopposed
	Whig	William Ponsonby	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 160
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

General election 1830: Poole^[17][61]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Whig	Benjamin Lester Lester	Unopposed
	Whig	William Ponsonby	Unopposed
Registered electors			c. 160
	Whig hold
	Whig hold

See also

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Dorset

Notes

1. A county constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
2. As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every 5 years.
3. Having stood for UKIP in 2015 Dr David Young was in September 2019 adopted to be the Brexit Party candidate. Following that party's withdrawal of all its candidates in seats held by the Conservatives he decided to stand as an Independent.

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12. Succeeded to baronetcy, February 1662
13. Expelled from the House of Commons, 15 February 1711, for "great Frauds and Abuses in his Contract for furnishing the Navy with Beer"
14. Expelled from the House of Commons, 30 March 1732, for his role in the fraudulent sale of the Earl of Derwentwater's estate
15. Major-General from 1758
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Sources

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• Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from 1715 to 1847, Volume 1 (London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1844)

• Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. p. 1.

External links

• Poole UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 1997 – April 2010) at MapIt UK
• Poole UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
• Poole UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK