Mid Kent | |
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Former county constituency for the House of Commons | |
1868–1885 | |
Seats | Two |
Created from | West Kent |
Replaced by | Medway Ashford Tunbridge |
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.
1868-1885: The Lathe of Aylesford, and the Lower Division of the Lathe of Scray. [1]
Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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1868 | William Hart Dyke | Conservative | William Amherst | Conservative | ||
1880 | Sir Edmund Filmer, Bt | Conservative | ||||
1884 by-election | John Gathorne-Hardy | Conservative | ||||
1885 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Hart Dyke | 3,251 | 26.6 | ||
Conservative | William Amherst | 3,248 | 26.5 | ||
Liberal | John William Nicholas Hervey | 2,872 | 23.5 | ||
Liberal | Sir Francis Head, 2nd Baronet | 2,868 | 23.4 | ||
Majority | 376 | 3.0 | |||
Turnout | 6,120 (est) | 70.2 (est) | |||
Registered electors | 8,723 | ||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Hart Dyke | 3,710 | 36.3 | +9.7 | |
Conservative | William Amherst | 3,542 | 34.7 | +8.2 | |
Liberal | David Salomons | 2,956 | 29.0 | −17.9 | |
Majority | 586 | 5.7 | +2.7 | ||
Turnout | 6,582 (est) | 73.9 (est) | +3.7 | ||
Registered electors | 8,905 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | +9.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +8.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | William Hart Dyke | 4,056 | 28.6 | −7.7 | |
Conservative | Edmund Filmer | 3,783 | 26.7 | −8.0 | |
Liberal | Edward Cazalet | 3,318 | 23.4 | +8.9 | |
Liberal | Howard Elphinstone | 3,020 | 21.3 | +6.8 | |
Majority | 465 | 3.3 | −2.4 | ||
Turnout | 7,089 (est) | 80.9 (est) | +7.0 | ||
Registered electors | 8,763 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | −8.3 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | −7.4 |
Filmer's resignation caused a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Gathorne-Hardy | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |
Dyke's appointment as Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland required a by-election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | William Hart Dyke | Unopposed | |||
Conservative hold |