Chatham (UK Parliament constituency)
Chatham | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Kent |
Major settlements | Chatham |
1832–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Kent |
Replaced by | Rochester & Chatham |
Chatham was a parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1832 general election, when the borough of Chatham was enfranchised under the Reform Act 1832.
It was abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Rochester and Chatham constituency. This then became Medway in 1983. When the boroughs of Rochester upon Medway and Gillingham merged to form the larger unitary Borough of Medway in 1998, the Parliamentary constituency of Medway only covered part of the new borough, so for the next election it will be renamed Rochester and Strood.
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1920s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon | 9,994 | 41.6 | -9.9 | |
Liberal | Sir Alfred John Callaghan | 8,227 | 34.3 | -14.2 | |
Labour | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 5,794 | 24.1 | n/a | |
Majority | 1,767 | 7.3 | +4.3 | ||
Turnout | 74.6 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +2.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sydney Frank Markham | 13,007 | 42.6 | ||
Unionist | John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon | 12,221 | 40.1 | ||
Liberal | George H Bryans | 5,284 | 17.3 | ||
Majority | 786 | 2.5 | |||
Turnout | |||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing |
Elections in the 1930s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Park Goff | 19,991 | 62.54 | ||
Labour | Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin | 10,837 | 33.90 | ||
New Party | Martin F Woodroffe | 1,135 | 3.55 | ||
Majority | 9,154 | 28.64 | |||
Turnout | 75.46 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Leonard Frank Plugge | 19,212 | 59.06 | ||
Labour | Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell | 13,315 | 40.94 | ||
Majority | 5,897 | 18.13 | |||
Turnout | 74.65 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Election in the 1940s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur George Bottomley | 19,250 | 55.34 | ||
Conservative | Leonard Frank Plugge | 15,534 | 44.66 | ||
Majority | 3,716 | 10.68 | |||
Turnout | 72.06 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
References
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)