Mid Kent was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Kent, which returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
| Mid Kent | |
|---|---|
| Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
 Mid Kent constituency in Kent, showing boundaries used from 1983–1997 | |
| County | Kent |
| Major settlements | Chatham, Maidstone (part) |
| 1983–1997 | |
| Seats | One |
| Created from | Maidstone and Rochester & Chatham[1] |
| Replaced by | Chatham and Aylesford, Faversham & Mid Kent, Maidstone and the Weald[1] |
| 1868–1885 | |
| Seats | Two |
| Created from | West Kent |
| Replaced by | Medway Ashford Tunbridge |
It was created for the 1868 general election, and abolished for the 1885 general election, when the three two-member constituencies (East Kent, Mid Kent and West Kent) were replaced by several new single-member constituencies: Ashford, Dartford, Faversham, Isle of Thanet, Medway, St Augustines, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge.
It was recreated for the 1983 general election from parts of the seats of Rochester and Chatham & Maidstone, and abolished for the 1997 general election. In this form, it returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Boundaries
edit1868-1885: The Lathe of Aylesford, and the Lower Division of the Lathe of Scray.[2]
1983–1997: 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
edit| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868 | William Hart Dyke | Conservative | William Amherst | Conservative | ||
| 1880 | Sir Edmund Filmer, Bt | Conservative | ||||
| 1884 by-election | John Gathorne-Hardy | Conservative | ||||
| 1885 | constituency abolished | |||||
| 1983 | Andrew Rowe | Conservative | ||||
| 1997 | constituency abolished | |||||
Election results
editElections in the 1860s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Hart Dyke | 3,251 | 26.6 | ||
| Conservative | William Amherst | 3,248 | 26.5 | ||
| Liberal | John William Nicholas Hervey | 2,872 | 23.5 | ||
| Liberal | Sir Francis Head, 2nd Baronet | 2,868 | 23.4 | ||
| Majority | 376 | 3.0 | |||
| Turnout | 6,120 (est) | 70.2 (est) | |||
| Registered electors | 8,723 | ||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Elections in the 1870s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Hart Dyke | 3,710 | 36.3 | +9.7 | |
| Conservative | William Amherst | 3,542 | 34.7 | +8.2 | |
| Liberal | David Salomons | 2,956 | 29.0 | −17.9 | |
| Majority | 586 | 5.7 | +2.7 | ||
| Turnout | 6,582 (est) | 73.9 (est) | +3.7 | ||
| Registered electors | 8,905 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +9.3 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +8.6 | |||
Elections in the 1880s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Hart Dyke | 4,056 | 28.6 | −7.7 | |
| Conservative | Edmund Filmer | 3,783 | 26.7 | −8.0 | |
| Liberal | Edward Cazalet | 3,318 | 23.4 | +8.9 | |
| Liberal | Howard Elphinstone | 3,020 | 21.3 | +6.8 | |
| Majority | 465 | 3.3 | −2.4 | ||
| Turnout | 7,089 (est) | 80.9 (est) | +7.0 | ||
| Registered electors | 8,763 | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −8.3 | |||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −7.4 | |||
Filmer's resignation caused a by-election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | John Gathorne-Hardy | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Dyke's appointment as Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland required a by-election.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | William Hart Dyke | Unopposed | |||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Elections in the 1980s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Andrew Rowe | 25,400 | 53.5 | ||
| Liberal | Allison Wainman | 12,857 | 27.0 | ||
| Labour | Vernon Hull | 8,928 | 18.8 | ||
| Independent | Dennis Delderfield | 324 | 0.7 | ||
| Majority | 12,543 | 26.5 | |||
| Turnout | 47,509 | 71.4 | |||
| Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Andrew Rowe | 28,719 | 55.1 | +1.6 | |
| Liberal | Graham Colley | 13,951 | 26.8 | −0.2 | |
| Labour | Jack Hazelgrove | 9,420 | 18.1 | −0.7 | |
| Majority | 14,768 | 28.3 | +1.8 | ||
| Turnout | 52,090 | 71.9 | +0.5 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +0.9 | |||
Elections in the 1990s
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Andrew Rowe | 33,633 | 56.7 | +1.6 | |
| Labour | Timothy Robson | 13,984 | 23.6 | +5.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Graham Colley | 11,476 | 19.3 | −7.5 | |
| Natural Law | Gerard Valente | 224 | 0.4 | New | |
| Majority | 19,649 | 33.1 | +4.8 | ||
| Turnout | 59,317 | 79.7 | +7.8 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −2.0 | |||
References
edit- 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.
- ↑ "Representation of the People Act 1867" (PDF). Retrieved 27 July 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. p. 405. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
- ↑ "Mid Kent Election". The Daily News. 30 March 1880. p. 4. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Election Data 1983". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Election Data 1987". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Election Data 1992". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "Politics Resources". Election 1992. Politics Resources. 9 April 1992. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 1)
- Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 405. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
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