Mid Kent (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Kent
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Kent
1983–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Faversham & Mid Kent
Created from	Maidstone and Rochester & Chatham[1]

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

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.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member[2]	Party
	1983	Andrew Rowe	Conservative
	1997	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections in the 1980s

General Election 1983: Mid Kent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Andrew Rowe	25,400	53.5	N/A
	Liberal	Allison Joan Wainman	12,857	27.0	N/A
	Labour	Vernon Alan Hull	8,928	18.8	N/A
	Independent	Dennis Delderfield	324	0.7	N/A
Majority			12,543	26.5
Turnout			47,509	71.4
	Conservative win (new seat)

General Election 1987: Mid Kent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Andrew Rowe	28,719	55.1	+1.6
	Liberal	Graham David Colley	13,951	26.8	−0.2
	Labour	Jack Allan Hazelgrove	9,420	18.1	−0.7
Majority			14,768	28.3
Turnout			52,090	71.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.9

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Mid Kent^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Andrew Rowe	33,633	56.7	+1.6
	Labour	Timothy John Robson	13,984	23.6	+5.5
	Liberal Democrat	Graham David Colley	11,476	19.3	−7.4
	Natural Law	Gerard Joseph Valente	224	0.4	N/A
Majority			19,649	33.1	+4.8
Turnout			59,317	79.7	+7.8
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.0

Notes and references

1. "'Kent Mid', June 1983 up to May 1997". ElectionWeb Project. Cognitive Computing Limited. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
3. "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Retrieved 2010-12-06.