Thanet West (UK Parliament constituency)

Thanet West
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
Thanet West in Kent, showing boundaries used from 1974-1983
County	Kent
Major settlements	Margate
February 1974–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Isle of Thanet
Replaced by	Thanet North and Thanet South

Thanet West was a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet, in Kent.

It was created for the February 1974 general election, when the former constituency of Isle of Thanet was split in two, and returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when Thanet West and the neighbouring Thanet East constituency were replaced by new North Thanet and South Thanet constituencies.

Boundaries

The Municipal Borough of Margate, and in the Rural District of Eastry the civil parishes of Acol, Minster, Monkton, St Nicholas at Wade, and Sarre.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Feb 1974	William Rees-Davies	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

Election results

General election 1979: Thanet West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Rees-Davies	18,122	55.39	+10.1
	Labour	JF Little	8,576	26.21	−2.3
	Liberal	D Payne	6,017	18.39	−7.7
Majority			9,546	29.18	+12.3
Turnout				71.60	+2.5

General election October 1974: Thanet West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Rees-Davies	13,763	45.34	−4.2
	Labour	CJ Smith	8,655	28.51	+1.4
	Liberal	IG Tiltman	7,935	26.14	+2.7
Majority			5,108	16.83	−5.7
Turnout				69.14	−9.0

General election February 1974: Thanet West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Rees-Davies	16,880	49.55
	Labour	IG Tiltman	9,220	27.06
	Liberal	D Ramage	7,969	23.39
Majority			7,660	22.48
Turnout				78.09

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)