North Dorset is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Simon Hoare of the Conservative Party.

It is largely rural, with a lower than average proportion of social housing and five small towns shown in the infobox.

1983–1997: The District of North Dorset, the District of Wimborne wards of Colehill, Corfe Mullen Central, Corfe Mullen North, Corfe Mullen South, Crane, Holt, Sixpenny Handley, Sturminster Marshall, Vale of Allen, and Wimborne Minster, and the District of Purbeck wards of Lytchett Matravers and Lytchett Minster.

2024–present: The District of Dorset wards of Beacon, Blackmore Vale, Blandford, Cranborne & Alderholt, Cranborne Chase, Gillingham, Hill Forts & Upper Tarrants, Puddletown & Lower Winterborne, Shaftesbury Town, Stalbridge & Marnhull, Sturminster Newton, Verwood, and Winterborne North.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;