Mid Kent (UK Parliament constituency)

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Mid Kent
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
MidKent1983Constituency.svg
Mid Kent constituency in Kent, showing boundaries used from 1983-1997
County Kent
Major settlementsChatham, Maidstone (part)
1983–1997
SeatsOne
Created from Maidstone and Rochester & Chatham [1]
Replaced by Chatham and Aylesford, Faversham & Mid Kent, Maidstone and the Weald [1]

Mid Kent was a county constituency in the county of Kent, which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents

It was created for the 1983 general election from parts of the seats of Rochester and Chatham & Maidstone, and abolished for the 1997 general election.

A previous two-member constituency called Mid Kent existed from 1868 to 1885.

Boundaries

The City of Rochester-upon-Medway wards of Holcombe, Horsted, Lordswood, Luton, Walderslade, Wayfield, and Weedswood, and the Borough of Maidstone wards of Bearsted, Boxley, Detling, East, Harrietsham and Lenham, Hollingbourne, North, and Thurnham.

The constituency was predominantly rural between the urban areas of Medway and Maidstone.

Members of Parliament

ElectionMember [2] Party
1983 Andrew Rowe Conservative
1997 constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1980s

General election 1983: Mid Kent [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Rowe 25,400 53.5
Liberal Allison Wainman12,85727.0
Labour Vernon Hull8,92818.8
Independent Dennis Delderfield 3240.7
Majority12,54326.5
Turnout 47,50971.4
Conservative win (new seat)
General election 1987: Mid Kent [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Rowe 28,719 55.1 +1.6
Liberal Graham Colley13,95126.8−0.2
Labour Jack Hazelgrove9,42018.1−0.7
Majority14,76828.3+1.8
Turnout 52,09071.9+0.5
Conservative hold Swing +0.9

Elections in the 1990s

General election 1992: Mid Kent [5] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Rowe 33,633 56.7 +1.6
Labour Timothy Robson13,98423.6+5.5
Liberal Democrats Graham Colley11,47619.3−7.5
Natural Law Gerard Valente2240.4New
Majority19,64933.1+4.8
Turnout 59,31779.7+7.8
Conservative hold Swing −2.0

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 "'Kent Mid', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
  3. ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

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