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Faversham was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Faversham 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 1885 general election , and abolished for the 1997 general election when it was replaced by the new constituencies of ...
In 1997, the Faversham and Mid Kent constituency was formed when the previous Faversham seat was abolished and split into Sittingbourne and Sheppey and the town of Faversham which was then merged with Mid Kent to form this constituency. It has been held by members of the Conservative Party throughout its existence.
The 1928 Faversham by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in ... Labour changed their candidate when they ... Faversham by-election, 1928 Party ...
This article lists the Labour Party's election results in elections from it adopting the "Labour Party" name in ... Faversham: Stanley Morgan: 5,981: 31.8: 2 ...
Since the constituency's creation in 1997 until 2010 the Member of Parliament was Derek Wyatt of the Labour Party. [32] At the 2010 general election, Gordon Henderson of the Conservative Party won the seat. Before 1997, Sheppey and Sittingbourne were part of the constituency of Faversham. Sheerness is in the local government district of Swale.
Twenty Labour councillors have quit the party in protest at its direction under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the prime minister of having "abandoned traditional Labour values ...
Helen Olivia Bicknell Whately [2] (née Lightwood; [3] born 23 June 1976) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Faversham and Mid Kent since 2015 and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions since November 2024. [4]
The 1964 Faversham by-election was held on 4 June 1964 after the death of the incumbent Labour MP Percy Wells. The usually marginal seat was retained by the Labour Candidate Terence Boston . Faversham by-election, 1964 [ 1 ] [ 2 ]