West Kent (UK Parliament constituency)
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| West Kent County constituency |
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| Created: | 1832 |
| Abolished: | 1885 |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| Members: | two |
West Kent (formally known as "Kent, Western") was a county constituency in Kent in South East England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
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[edit] History
The constituency was created by the Reform Act 1832 for the 1832 general election, and abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election.
All three two-member constituencies in Kent were abolished in 1885: East Kent, Mid Kent and West Kent. They were replaced by eight new single-member constituencies: Ashford, Dartford, Faversham, Isle of Thanet, Medway, St Augustine's, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge.
[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] Members of Parliament
| Election | 1st Member | 1st Party | 2nd Member | 2nd Party | ||
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| 1832 | Thomas Law Hodges | Thomas Rider | ||||
| 1835 | Sir William Richard Powlett Geary | |||||
| 1838 | Sir Edmund Filmer | |||||
| 1841 | Charles Marsham, Viscount Marsham | |||||
| 1845 | Thomas Austen | |||||
| 1847 | Thomas Law Hodges | |||||
| 1852 | William Masters Smith | |||||
| Feb 1857 | Charles Wykeham Martin | |||||
| Apr 1857 | James Whatman | |||||
| 1859 | William Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale | Sir Edmund Filmer | ||||
| 1865 | William Hart Dyke | Conservative | ||||
| 1868 | Sir Charles Henry Mills | John Gilbert Talbot | ||||
| 1878 | William Heneage Legge, Viscount Lewisham | Conservative | ||||
[edit] Election results
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[edit] References
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.
