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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
The origins of the Robert Napier School extend back to 1905 when the 'Napier Road School' opened at Napier Road, Gillingham. In 1923 Gillingham County Council (Grammar) School was opened by Kent County Council on what is now the site of the present school on Third Avenue. Shortly after its opening, the area experienced a sudden influx in ...
Gillingham School, a coeducational school situated in Gillingham in North Dorset, England; Gillingham Town F.C., a football club; Gillingham (ward), an electoral district; Gillingham (liberty), a former administrative division; Gillingham, Kent (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l ɪ ŋ əm / JIL-ing-əm) Gillingham (UK Parliament constituency), existed from 1918 to ...
Gillingham became an urban district under the Local Government Act 1894, gaining municipal borough status in 1903. [4] John Robert Featherby was the first mayor of the Borough of Gillingham. [5]
Rainham Mark Grammar School (previously Known as Gillingham Technical High School) is the only co-educational selective grammar school in the Medway, Kent, England area. It has academy status , along with Twydall Primary School and Riverside Primary School.
At the 2005 general election, Chishti stood as the Labour Party candidate for the Horsham constituency. [19] He later joined the Conservative Party, and was selected as the candidate for the marginal seat of Gillingham and Rainham, whose predecessor seat of Gillingham had been held by Labour by less than 300 votes in 2005.
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 .