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The constituency is generally suburban and centred on Gillingham, historically a small port, which is within the London Commuter Belt.Local retail, industry, business parks, trades and professions provide constituents with a high level of employment, mostly on moderate to middle incomes; [7] however, the area is not wholly resilient to unemployment.
Gillingham was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Boundaries
Gillingham constituency. The Gillingham constituency was created in 1918 Election Member Party 1918: Constituency created: 1918: Sir Gerald Fitzroy Hohler ...
The "new" constituency, i.e. the constituency that did not contain a majority of any previous constituency's electorate, was Faversham & Mid Kent, which was formed from portions of the previous Maidstone, Faversham, Mid Kent and Canterbury constituencies. This had knock-on effects throughout the county, and resulted in the renaming of the ...
This is a list of members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by English constituencies for the Fifty-Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024). It includes both MPs elected at the 2019 general election , held on 12 December 2019, and those subsequently elected in by-elections .
See: North Somerset for North Somerset & Weston-Super-Mare constituencies and Somerset for Bridgwater and West Somerset, Somerton and Frome, Taunton Deane, Wells & Yeovil constituencies. Bedfordshire and Luton
Gillingham has a marina called Gillingham Marina. Gillingham is an important retail centre serving a substantial part of Medway. The town has a large street market in the High Street on Saturdays and Mondays, and is the busiest in the whole of Medway. [18]
The Parliament of the United Kingdom currently has 650 parliamentary constituencies across the constituent countries (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland), each electing a single member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons by the plurality (first-past-the-post) voting system, ordinarily every five years.