Annette Brooke

Dame Annette Brooke
Brooke at the 2009 Liberal Democrat Spring Conference
Member of Parliament
for Mid Dorset and North Poole
In office
7 June 2001 – 30 March 2015
Preceded byChristopher Fraser
Succeeded byMichael Tomlinson
Personal details
Born
Annette Lesley Kelly

(1947-06-07) 7 June 1947 (age 77)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal Democrats
SpouseMichael Brooke
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Hughes Hall, Cambridge

Dame Annette Lesley Brooke, DBE (née Kelly; born 7 June 1947) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Dorset and North Poole from the 2001 general election to 2015. In 2001, she became the first female MP elected in a general election in Dorset. At the time she left office, Brooke was the longest serving female MP in the history of the Liberal Democrats.

As of 2024, she and fellow Liberal Democrats, Diana Maddock and Vikki Slade, and Labour's Jessica Toale, are the only women to date who represented parliamentary constituencies in Dorset.