Faversham and Mid Kent (UK Parliament constituency)

Faversham and Mid Kent
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of Faversham and Mid Kent in Kent for the 2010 general election.
Location of Kent within England.
County	Kent
Electorate	68,521 (December 2010)^[1]
Major settlements	Faversham and Shepway, Maidstone
Current constituency
Created	1997
Member of parliament	Helen Whately (Conservative)
Number of members	One
Created from	Faversham and Mid Kent
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	South East England

Faversham and Mid Kent is a constituency^{[n 1]} represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Since 2015, its MP has been Helen Whately, a Conservative.^{[n 2]}

Boundaries

1997-2010: The Borough of Swale wards of Abbey, Boughton, Courtenay, Davington Priory, East Downs, St Ann's, Teynham and Lynsted, and Watling, and the Borough of Maidstone wards of Bearsted, Boxley, Detling, Harrietsham and Lenham, Headcorn, Hollingbourne, Langley, Leeds, Park Wood, Shepway East, Shepway West, Sutton Valence, and Thurnham.

2010-present: The Borough of Swale wards of Abbey, Boughton and Courtenay, Davington Priory, East Downs, St Ann’s, and Watling, and the Borough of Maidstone wards of Bearsted, Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton, Boxley, Detling and Thurnham, Downswood and Otham, Harrietsham and Lenham, Headcorn, Leeds, North Downs, Park Wood, Shepway North, Shepway South, and Sutton Valence and Langley.

Faversham and Mid Kent covers sections of the Swale and Maidstone boroughs. The constituency includes the easternmost outlying residents of the county town, Maidstone. This caused minor confusion among a large minority of residents of the Maidstone electoral wards when the boundaries were first changed in 1997 as a constituency named Maidstone and The Weald was also created at the same time (largely replacing the former Maidstone constituency), but residents in the Shepway and Park Wood areas of the town found themselves in Faversham and Mid Kent instead.^[2]

History

In 1997 this constituency was formed when the previous Faversham seat was abolished and split into Sittingbourne and Sheppey and the town of Faversham which was then merged with Mid Kent to form this constituency.

Members of Parliament

	Member^[3]	Party
1997	Andrew Rowe	Conservative
2001	Sir Hugh Robertson	Conservative
2015	Helen Whately	Conservative

Elections

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Faversham and Mid Kent^[4]^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Helen Whately^[6]	24,895	54.4	−1.8
	UKIP	Peter Edwards-Daem	8,243	18.0	+14.3
	Labour	Michael Desmond	7,403	16.2	−0.4
	Liberal Democrat	David S. Naghi	3,039	6.6	−13.1
	Green	Tim Valentine	1,768	3.9	+2.0
	Monster Raving Loony	Hairy Knorm Davidson^[7]	297	0.6	−0.2
	English Democrat	Gary Butler	158	0.3
Majority			16,652	36.4	−0.2
Turnout			45,803	65.9	−1.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	-8.1

General Election 2010: Faversham and Mid Kent^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Hugh Michael Robertson	26,250	56.2	+6.1
	Liberal Democrat	David S. Naghi	9,162	19.6	+2.9
	Labour	Ashok Rehal	7,748	16.6	−12.5
	UKIP	Sarah Larkins	1,722	3.7	+1.0
	Green	Tim Valentine	890	1.9	N/A
	National Front	Graham Kemp^[9]	542	1.2	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Hairy Knorm Davidson	398	0.9	−0.6
Majority			17,088	36.6	+16.6
Turnout			46,712	67.8	+2.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.6

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2005: Faversham and Mid Kent^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Hugh Michael Robertson	21,690	49.7	+4.1
	Labour	Andrew W. Bradstock	12,970	29.7	−5.8
	Liberal Democrat	David S. Naghi	7,204	16.5	+3.0
	UKIP	Robert P. Thompson	1,152	2.6	+0.6
	Monster Raving Loony	Norman Alfred W. Davidson	610	1.4	+1.4
Majority			8,720	20.0	9.9
Turnout			43,626	65.7	+5.3
	Conservative hold		Swing	+4.9

General Election 2001: Faversham and Mid Kent^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Sir Hugh Michael Robertson	18,739	45.6	+1.3
	Labour	Grahame George Birchall	14,556	35.5	−0.5
	Liberal Democrat	Michael John Sole	5,529	13.5	+1.1
	UKIP	James Campbell Gascoyne	828	2.0	+1.1
	Green	Mrs. Penelope Anne Kemp	799	1.9	+1.2
	Rock 'n' Roll Loony	Norman Alfred W. Davidson	600	1.5	N/A
Majority			4,183	10.1	+1.7
Turnout			41,051	60.4	-13.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	+0.9

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1997: Faversham and Mid Kent^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Andrew Rowe	22,016	44.4	N/A
	Labour	Alan Stewart	17,843	36.0	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Bruce E. Parmenter	6,138	12.4	N/A
	Referendum	Robin M. Birley	2,073	4.2	N/A
	Monster Raving Loony	Norman Alfred W. Davidson	511	1.0	N/A
	UKIP	Michael J. Cunningham	431	0.9	N/A
	Green	David J. Currer	380	0.8	N/A
	Green Referendum Lawless Naturally Street Party	Miss Caroline Morgan	115	0.2	N/A
	Natural Law	Nigel P.J. Pollard	99	0.2	N/A
Majority			4,173	8.4	N/A
Turnout			49,606	73.5	N/A
	Conservative win (new seat)

Notes and references

Notes

↑ A county 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. Archived from the original on November 6, 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
↑ Article on 1997 election in the Kent Messenger, 6 May 1997
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F"
↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ "UKIP in Faversham and Mid-Kent elect candidate for 2015". Canterbury Times. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
↑ http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/Faversham-Conservatives-Helen-Whately/story-26078243-detail/story.html
↑ http://www.canterburytimes.co.uk/Faversham-candidate-Hairy-Knorm-brews-links-Al/story-25997050-detail/story.html
↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
↑ National Front
↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 2001". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
↑ "Election Data 1997". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.

Sources

Election result, 2005 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 - 2001 (BBC)
Election results, 1997 - 2001 (Election Demon)
Election results, 1997 - 2005 (Guardian)

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Labour (4)	Hove Oxford East Slough Southampton Test

Green (1)	Brighton Pavilion

Speaker (1)	Buckingham

South East England European constituency: UKIP (4) Conservative (3) Green (1) Labour (1) Liberal Democrats (1)

Coordinates: 51°15′N 0°48′E / 51.250°N 0.800°E / 51.250; 0.800

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