Gillingham and Rainham (UK Parliament constituency)
Gillingham and Rainham | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Boundary of Gillingham and Rainham in Kent for the 2010 general election. | |
Location of Kent within England. | |
County | Kent |
Electorate | 71,109 (December 2010)[1] |
Major settlements | Gillingham, Rainham, Hempstead, Twydall |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2010 |
Member of parliament | Rehman Chishti (Conservative) |
Number of members | One |
Created from | Gillingham |
Overlaps | |
European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Gillingham and Rainham is a constituency[n 1] in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Rehman Chishti, a Conservative.[n 2] It replaced the previous constituency of Gillingham.
Boundaries
The seat has electoral wards:
- Gillingham North, Gillingham South, Hempstead and Wigmore, Rainham Central, Rainham North, Rainham South, Twydall and Watling in Medway, a unitary authority
Constituency profile
The constituency is centred on the large town, historically a small port, convenient for access to the City of London, within the London Commuter Belt and adjoining the touristic town of Rochester which has a Cathedral and Castle. Local retail, industry, business parks, trades and professions provide constituents with a high level of employment mostly on moderate to middle incomes,[2] however the area is not wholly resilient to unemployment. Registered claimants who were registered jobseekers were marginally lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 3.5% of the population according to a statistical compilation by The Guardian.[3]
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[4] | Party | |
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2010 | Rehman Chishti | Conservative |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Rehman Chishti | 22,590 | 48.0 | +1.8 | |
Labour | Paul Clark | 12,060 | 25.6 | -2.0 | |
UKIP | Mark Hanson | 9,199 | 19.5 | +16.3 | |
Liberal Democrat | Paul Chaplin[6] | 1,707 | 3.6 | -14.5 | |
Green | Neil Williams | 1,133 | 2.4 | +1.6 | |
TUSC | Jacqui Berry[7] | 273 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Independent | Roger Peacock | 72 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Independent | Mike Walters | 44 | 0.1 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,530 | 22.4 | +3.8 | ||
Turnout | 47,078 | 64.8 | -1.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Rehman Chishti | 21,624 | 46.2 | +5.5 | |
Labour | Paul Clark[9] | 12,944 | 27.7 | -13.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | Andrew Stamp | 8,484 | 18.1 | +2.8 | |
UKIP | Robert Oakley | 1,515 | 3.2 | +0.6 | |
BNP | Brian Ravenscroft | 1,149 | 2.5 | N/A | |
English Democrat | Dean Lacey | 464 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Green | Trish Marchant | 356 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Independent | Gordon Bryan | 141 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Medway Independent Party | George Meegan | 109 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,680 | 18.6 | |||
Turnout | 46,786 | 66.0 | +2.0 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | +9.3 | |||
See also
Notes and references
- Notes
- ↑ A borough constituency (for the purposes of election expenses and type of returning officer)
- ↑ As with all constituencies, the constituency elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election at least every five years.
- References
- ↑ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ↑ 2001 Census
- ↑ Unemployment claimants by constituency The Guardian
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 1)
- ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ http://www.libdems.org.uk/general_election_candidates#South East
- ↑ http://www.tusc.org.uk/17049/19-12-2014/more-tusc-candidates-in-place-as-election-challenge-grows
- ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Served as an MP in the 2005–2010 Parliament
Coordinates: 51°22′N 0°34′E / 51.367°N 0.567°E