- Mid Kent (historic UK Parliament constituency)
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For the 1983–1997 constituency, see Mid Kent (UK Parliament constituency).
Mid Kent Former County constituency for the House of Commons 1868–1885 Number of members Two 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.
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.
A later single-member constituency called Mid Kent existed from 1983 to 1997.
Members of Parliament
Election 1st Member 1st Party 2nd Member 2nd Party 1868 William Hart Dyke Conservative William Amherst Conservative 1880 Sir Sir Edmund Filmer, Bt Conservative 1884 by-election John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy Conservative 1885 constituency abolished Election results
References
- 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.
Categories:- Ashford, Kent
- Dartford
- Swale
- Thanet
- Sevenoaks
- Politics of Tunbridge Wells
- Politics of Medway
- Parliamentary constituencies in Kent (historic)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1868
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1885
- United Kingdom historical constituency stubs
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