Dorset Council consists of 82 councillors. A Councillors’ role includes representing the needs, priorities and aspirations of the Dorset Council and the people of the Dorset Council area.
Councillors also have a responsibility to promote the Dorset Council vision and to act in accordance with the highest standards of probity in public life, seeking to serve the community without personal gain. If you have a complaint about a councillor, please read the Process for dealing with complaints against councillors
Contacting your local Dorset Council councillor Political composition of the council and details of group leaders Find your local councillor using this interactive ward mapSherborne East
Liberal Democrats
Colehill and Wimborne Minster East
Liberal Democrats
West Purbeck
Liberal Democrats
Wimborne Minster
Liberal Democrats
Lyme and Charmouth
Green Party
West Purbeck
Conservative
Shaftesbury Town
Liberal Democrats
Radipole
Liberal Democrats
Dorchester Poundbury
Liberal Democrats
Bridport
Liberal Democrats
Bridport
Liberal Democrats
Radipole
Liberal Democrats
Lytchett Matravers and Upton
Liberal Democrats
Cranborne Chase
Conservative
St Leonards and St Ives
Conservative
Dorchester West
Liberal Democrats
Stour and Allen Vale
Liberal Democrats
Marshwood Vale
Conservative
Chickerell
Liberal Democrats
Verwood
Conservative
Winterborne North
Liberal Democrats
Sherborne West
Liberal Democrats
Littlemoor and Preston
Conservative
Eggardon
Liberal Democrats
Wareham
Liberal Democrats
Corfe Mullen
Liberal Democrats
Verwood
Conservative
Dorchester West
Independents for Dorset
Westham
Liberal Democrats
Verwood
Conservative
St Leonards and St Ives
Conservative
Chalk Valleys
Conservative
Ferndown South
Independents for Dorset
Chesil Bank
Liberal Democrats
Wareham
Liberal Democrats
Westham
Liberal Democrats
Portland
Independents for Dorset
Crossways
Liberal Democrats
Shaftesbury Town
Liberal Democrats
Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants
Conservative
Sturminster Newton
Conservative
Dorchester East
Liberal Democrats
Portland
Labour & Co-operative
Yetminster
Liberal Democrats
Blandford
Conservative
Sherborne Rural
Liberal Democrats
Ferndown North
Conservative
Dorchester East
Liberal Democrats
Beaminster
Conservative
Wimborne Minster
Liberal Democrats
Blackmore Vale
Conservative
Upwey and Broadwey
Liberal Democrats
Littlemoor and Preston
Conservative
Melcombe Regis
Green Party
Puddletown and Lower Winterborne
Conservative
Ferndown North
Conservative
West Parley
Conservative
Gillingham
Conservative
Blandford
Conservative
Gillingham
Conservative
Ferndown South
Conservative
Lytchett Matravers and Upton
Liberal Democrats
Portland
Independents for Dorset
West Moors and Three Legged Cross
Conservative
West Moors and Three Legged Cross
Conservative
Beacon
Conservative
Corfe Mullen
Liberal Democrats
Lytchett Matravers and Upton
Liberal Democrats
Swanage
Conservative
Rodwell and Wyke
Green Party
Winterborne and Broadmayne
Liberal Democrats
Charminster St Marys
Liberal Democrats
Chickerell
Liberal Democrats
Colehill and Wimborne Minster East
Liberal Democrats
Cranborne and Alderholt
Liberal Democrats
Swanage
Conservative
Stalbridge and Marnhull
Conservative
Rodwell and Wyke
Green Party
Rodwell and Wyke
Labour
Bridport
Liberal Democrats
South East Purbeck
Liberal Democrats
Gillingham
Liberal Democrats