List of parliamentary constituencies in Kent

The ceremonial county of Kent, (which includes the unitary authority of Medway), is divided into 18 parliamentary constituencies - one borough constituency and 17 county constituencies.

Constituencies

Conservative † Labour ‡ Liberal Democrats ¤ Reform

Constituency^{[nb 1]}	Majority^[1]^{[nb 2]}
Ashford CC	1,779	Sojan Joseph ‡	Damian Green †
Canterbury CC	8,653	Rosie Duffield ‡	Louise Harvey-Quirke †
Chatham and Aylesford CC	1,998	Tris Osborne ‡	Nathan Gamester †
Dartford CC	1,192	Jim Dickson ‡	Gareth Johnson †
Dover and Deal CC	7,559	Mike Tapp ‡	Howard Cox ‡
East Thanet CC	6,971	Polly Billington ‡	Helen Harrison †
Faversham and Mid Kent CC	1,469	Helen Whately †	Mel Dawkins ‡
Folkestone and Hythe CC	3,729	Tony Vaughan ‡	Damian Collins †
Gillingham and Rainham BC	3,972	Naushabah Khan ‡	Rehman Chishti †
Gravesham CC	2,712	Lauren Sullivan ‡	Adam Holloway †
Herne Bay and Sandwich CC	2,499	Roger Gale †	Helen Whitehead ‡
Maidstone and Malling CC	1,674	Helen Grant †	Maureen Cleator ‡
Rochester and Strood CC	2,293	Lauren Edwards ‡	Kelly Tolhurst †
Sevenoaks CC	5,440	Laura Trott †	Richard Streatfeild ¤
Sittingbourne and Sheppey CC	355	Kevin McKenna ‡	Aisha Cuthbert †
Tonbridge CC	11,166	Tom Tugendhat †	Lewis Bailey ‡
Tunbridge Wells CC	8,687	Mike Martin ¤	Neil Mahapatra †
Weald of Kent CC	8,422	Katie Lam †	Lenny Rolles ‡

2024 boundary changes

Former name	Boundaries 2010-2024	Current name	Boundaries 2024–present
Ashford CC Canterbury CC Chatham and Aylesford CC Dartford CC Dover CC Faversham and Mid Kent CC Folkestone and Hythe CC Gillingham and Rainham BC Gravesham CC Maidstone and The Weald CC North Thanet CC Rochester and Strood CC Sevenoaks CC Sittingbourne and Sheppey CC South Thanet CC Tonbridge and Malling CC Tunbridge Wells CC	2010-2024 constituencies in Kent	Ashford CC Canterbury CC Chatham and Aylesford CC Dartford CC Dover and Deal CC East Thanet CC Faversham and Mid Kent CC Folkestone and Hythe CC Gillingham and Rainham BC Gravesham CC Herne Bay and Sandwich CC Maidstone and Malling CC Rochester and Strood CC Sevenoaks CC Sittingbourne and Sheppey CC Tonbridge and Malling CC Tunbridge Wells CC Weald of Kent CC	2024-present constituencies in Kent

See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.

Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021.^[2] Initial proposals were published on 8 June 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 8 November 2022. The final proposals were published on 28 June 2023.

The commission has proposed that an additional seat is created in Kent, with the formation of the constituency of Weald of Kent. As a consequence, Maidstone and the Weald, and Tonbridge and Malling would be renamed Maidstone and Malling, and Tonbridge respectively. Changes to North Thanet and South Thanet would result in them being replaced by Herne Bay and Sandwich, and East Thanet respectively. Although only subject to a very minor boundary change, Dover would revert to its previous name of Dover and Deal.^[3]^[4]^[5]

The following constituencies are proposed:

Containing electoral wards from Ashford

Ashford (part)
Weald of Kent (part)

Containing electoral wards from Canterbury

Canterbury
Herne Bay and Sandwich (part)

Containing electoral wards from Dartford

Dartford
Sevenoaks (part)

Containing electoral wards from Dover

Dover and Deal
Herne Bay and Sandwich (part)

Containing electoral wards from Folkestone and Hythe

Ashford (part)
Folkestone and Hythe

Containing electoral wards from Gravesham

Gravesham

Containing electoral wards from Maidstone

Faversham and Mid Kent (part)
Maidstone and Malling (part)
Weald of Kent (part)

Containing electoral wards from Medway

Containing electoral wards from Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks (part)
Tonbridge (part)

Containing electoral wards from Swale

Faversham and Mid Kent (part)
Sittingbourne and Sheppey

Containing electoral wards from Thanet

East Thanet
Herne Bay and Sandwich (part)

Containing electoral wards from Tonbridge and Malling

Chatham and Aylesford (part)
Maidstone and Malling (part)
Tonbridge (part)

Containing electoral wards from Tunbridge Wells

Tunbridge Wells
Weald of Kent (part)

Results history

Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019^[6]

2024

The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising Kent in the 2019 general election were as follows:

Party	Votes	%	Change from 2019	Seats	Change from 2019
Conservative	251,860	31.3%	28.8%	6	10
Labour	249,043	31.0%	6.0%	11	10
Reform	168,652	21.0%	21.0%	0	0
Greens	64,303	8.0%	4.8%	0	0
Liberal Democrats	57,579	7.0%	3.4%	1	1
Others	13,059	1.6%	0.3%	0	0
Total	804,496	100.0		18	1

Percentage votes

Election year	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	20100	2015	2017	2019	2024
Conservative	44.2	44.0	53.9	53.9	54.0	53.1	40.5	43.4	45.8	50.5	49.2	56.4	60.1	31.3
Labour	29.5	33.3	29.9	18.6	19.3	24.3	37.1	37.7	32.4	21.1	20.0	31.7	25.0	31.0
Reform¹	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21.0
Green Party	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	1.0	3.6	2.2	3.2	8.0
Liberal Democrat²	25.7	21.8	15.1	26.9	26.1	21.3	17.0	15.5	17.3	20.9	6.3	5.5	10.4	7.0
UKIP	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	3.9	20.3	3.6	*	*
Other	0.6	0.9	1.1	0.7	0.6	1.3	5.4	3.4	4.4	2.6	0.5	0.6	1.3	1.6

¹2019 - Brexit Party
²1974 & 1979 - Liberal Party; 1983 & 1987 - SDP-Liberal Alliance

* Included in Other

Seats

Election year	1974 (Feb)	1974 (Oct)	1979	1983	1987	1992	1997	2001	2005	2010	2015	2017	2019	2024
Labour	2	3	0	0	0	0	8	8	7	0	0	1	1	11
Conservative	13	12	15	16	16	16	9	9	10	17	17	16	16	6
Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	15	15	15	16	16	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	18

Maps

1885-1910

1885
1886
1892
1895
1900
1906
Jan 1910
Dec 1910

1918-1945

1918
1922
1923
1924
1929
1931
1935
1945

1950-1970

1950
1951
1955
1959
1964
1966
1970

1974-present

Feb 1974
Oct 1974
1979
1983
1987
1992
1997
2001
2005
2010
2015
2017
2019
2024

Historic representation by party

A cell marked → (with a different colour background to the preceding cell) indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under a new party name.

1885 to 1918

Conservative Independent Conservative Independent Liberal Labour Liberal Liberal Unionist National Party

Constituency	1885	1886	88	89	1892	93	1895	98	99	1900	01	03	04	1906	Jan 1910	Dec 1910	11	12	13	15	17	18
Ashford	Pomfret				Hardy
Canterbury	Heaton															Bennett-Goldney						Anderson
Chatham	Gorst				Loyd		Davies							Jenkins	Hohler
Dartford	Dyke													Rowlands	Mitchell	Rowlands
Dover	Dickson			Wyndham															Ponsonby		→
Faversham	Knatchbull-Hugessen						Barnes			Howard				Napier	Wheler
Gravesend	White				Palmer			Ryder		Parker												Richardson
Hythe	Watkin	→					Edwards		E. Sassoon									P. Sassoon
Isle of Thanet	King-Harman		Lowther										Marks		Craig
Maidstone	Ross		Cornwallis				Hunt	Cornwallis		Barker	Evans			Vane-Tempest-Stewart						Bellairs
Medway	Gathorne-Hardy				Warde
Rochester	Hughes-Hallett			Knatchbull-Hugessen	Davies	Gascoyne-Cecil						Tuff		Lamb	Ridley	Lamb
St Augustine's	Akers-Douglas																McNeill
Sevenoaks	Mills				Forster
Tunbridge	Norton				Griffith-Boscawen									Hedges	Spender-Clay

1918 to 1950

Coalition Liberal (1918-22) / National Liberal (1922-23) Conservative Constitutionalist Independent Labour Liberal National Labour

Constituency	1918	19	20	21	1922	23	1923	1924	27	28	1929	30	31	1931	33	35	1935	37	38	39	43	1945	45	46	47
Bexley																						Adamson		Bramall
Orpington																						Smithers
Ashford	Steel										Kedward			Knatchbull	Spens						Smith
Bromley	Forster	James										Campbell											Macmillan
Canterbury	McNeill								Wayland													White
Chatham	Moore-Brabazon										Markham		→	Goff			Plugge					Bottomley
Chislehurst	A. Smithers				Nesbitt			W. Smithers														Wallace
Dartford	Rowlands		Mills		Jarrett	→	Mills	McDonnell			Mills			Clarke					Adamson			Dodds
Dover	Ponsonby			Polson	Astor																	Thomas
Faversham	Wheler									Maitland												Wells
Gillingham	Hohler										Gower											Binns
Gravesend	Richardson						Isaacs	Albery														Allighan			Acland
Hythe	P. Sassoon																			Brabner		Mackeson
Isle of Thanet	Craig	Harmsworth									Balfour											Carson
Maidstone	Bellairs													Bossom
Sevenoaks	Bennett						Williams	Styles			Young					Ponsonby
Tonbridge	Spender-Clay																	Baillie				Williams

1950 to 1974

Conservative Labour Liberal

Constituency	1950	53	55	1955	56	57	1959	62	64	1964	1966	1970
Ashford	Deedes
Beckenham	Buchan-Hepburn					Goodhart							Transferred to Greater London
Bexley	Heath												Transferred to Greater London
Bromley	Macmillan									Hunt			Transferred to Greater London
Canterbury	White	Thomas									Crouch
Chislehurst	Hornsby-Smith										Macdonald	Hornsby-Smith	Transferred to Greater London
Dartford	Dodds			Irving								Trew
Dover	Arbuthnot									Ennals		Rees
Erith and Crayford				Dodds									Transferred to Greater London
Faversham	Wells								Boston			Moate
Folkestone and Hythe	Mackeson						Costain
Gillingham	Burden
Gravesend	Acland			Kirk						Murray		White
Isle of Thanet	Carson	Rees-Davies
Maidstone	Bossom						Wells
Orpington	Smithers		Sumner					Lubbock				Stanbrook	Transferred to Greater London
Rochester and Chatham	Bottomley						Critchley			Kerr		Fenner
Sevenoaks	Rodgers
Tonbridge	Williams				Hornby

1974 to 2010

Conservative Independent Labour

Constituency	Feb 1974	Oct 1974	1979	1983	1987	1997	2001	2005
Ashford	Deedes	Speed				Green
Canterbury	D. Crouch				Brazier
Dartford	Irving		Dunn			Stoate
Dover & Deal / Dover (1983–)	Rees				Shaw	Prosser
Faversham / Sittingbourne & Sheppey (1997)	Moate					Wyatt
Folkestone and Hythe	Costain			Howard
Gillingham	Burden			Couchman		P. Clark
Gravesend / Gravesham (1983)	Ovenden		Brinton		Arnold	Pond		Holloway
Maidstone / Maidstone & The Weald (1997)	Wells				Widdecombe
Rochester & Chatham / Medway (1983)	Fenner	Bean	Fenner			Marshall-Andrews
Sevenoaks	Rodgers		Wolfson			Fallon
Thanet W / North Thanet (1983)	Rees-Davies			Gale
Tonbridge & Malling	Hornby	Stanley
Thanet East / South Thanet (1983)	Aitken					Ladyman
Tunbridge Wells	Mayhew					Norman		G. Clark
Mid Kent / Faversham & Mid Kent (1997)				Rowe			Robertson
Chatham and Aylesford						Shaw

2010 to present

Conservative Independent Labour Liberal Democrats UKIP

Constituency	2010	14	2015	2017	17	18	19	2019	24	2024
Ashford	Green									Joseph
Canterbury	Brazier			Duffield
Chatham and Aylesford	T. Crouch									Osborne
Dartford	Johnson									Dickson
Dover / Dover and Deal (2024)	C. Elphicke				→	→	→	N. Elphicke	→	Tapp
Faversham & Mid Kent	Robertson		Whately
Folkestone and Hythe	Collins									Vaughan
Gillingham & Rainham	Chishti									Khan
Gravesham	Holloway									Sullivan
Maidstone & The Weald / M'stone & Malling ('24)	Grant
North Thanet / Herne Bay & Sandwich (2024)	Gale
Rochester & Strood	Reckless	→	Tolhurst							Edwards
Sevenoaks	Fallon							Trott
Sittingbourne and Sheppey	Henderson									McKenna
South Thanet / East Thanet (2024)	Sandys		Mackinlay							Billington
Tonbridge & Malling / Tonbridge (2024)	Stanley			Tugendhat
Tunbridge Wells	G. Clark									Martin
Weald of Kent										Lam

Notes

^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
^ "New Constituency Proposed for Kent". Kent Bylines. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ Bailes, Kathy (8 June 2021). "Boundary changes proposed for Thanet with East and West constituencies". The Isle Of Thanet News. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report". Boundary Commission for England. paras 1025-1053. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".

[1] BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.

[3] The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.

[:0-2] "Constituencies A-Z - Election 2019". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2020.

[4] "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 7 October 2021.

[5] "New Constituency Proposed for Kent". Kent Bylines. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

[6] Bailes, Kathy (8 June 2021). "Boundary changes proposed for Thanet with East and West constituencies". The Isle Of Thanet News. Retrieved 16 November 2021.

[7] "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report". Boundary Commission for England. paras 1025-1053. Retrieved 10 July 2023.

[8] Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".

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