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.
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 1868-1885: The Lathe of Aylesford, and the Lower Division of the Lathe of Scray.
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 Election1st Member1st Party2nd Member2nd Party 1868 William Hart Dyke Conservative William Amherst Conservative 1880 Sir Edmund Filmer, Bt Conservative 1884 by-election John Gathorne-Hardy Conservative1885 constituency abolished 1983 Andrew Rowe Conservative1997 constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
Elections in the 1880s
Filmer's resignation caused a by-election.
Dyke's appointment as Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland required a by-election.
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1990s
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