Faversham was a
parliamentary constituency
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centred on the town of
Faversham
Faversham is a market town in Kent, England, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2, which follows an ancient Briti ...
in
Kent
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which returned one
Member of Parliament
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(MP) to the
House of Commons
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of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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.
It was created for the
1885 general election, and abolished for the
1997 general election when it was replaced by the new constituencies of
Sittingbourne and Sheppey, and
Faversham and Mid Kent.
Boundaries
1885–1918:
*The Borough of Faversham
*the Sessional Division of Faversham
*the corporate town of Queenborough
1918–1950:
*the Boroughs of Faversham and Queenborough,
*the Urban Districts of Milton Regis,
*Sheerness, and Sittingbourne,
*the Rural Districts of Milton and Sheppey,
*the Rural District of Faversham (except the detached parts of the parishes of Dunkirk and Hernhill which were wholly surrounded by the Rural District of Blean)
1950–1983:
*the Boroughs of Faversham and Queenborough
*the Urban Districts of Sheerness, Sittingbourne and Milton
*the Rural Districts of Sheppey and Swale
1983–1997:
*the Borough of Swale wards of Abbey, Borden, Davington Priory, East Downs, Eastern, Grove, Iwade and Lower Halstow
*Kemsley
*Milton Regis
*Minster Cliffs
*Murston
*Newington
*Queenborough and Halfway
*Roman
*St Ann's
*Sheerness East
*Sheerness West
*Sheppey Central
*Teynham and Lynsted
*Watling
*West Downs
*Woodstock
Members of Parliament
Elections
Elections in the 1880s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914–15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
*Unionist:
Granville Wheler
Granville Wheler (August 1701 – 12 May 1770) was an English clergyman and scientist.
Life
He was third son of Sir George Wheler, born in August 1701, and was educated in Durham where his father was a canon at Durham Cathedral. He was admitted ...
*Liberal:
*Labour:
Stanley Morgan
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Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1939–40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;
*Conservative:
Adam Maitland
Sir Adam Maitland (25 May 1885 – 5 October 1949) Charles Roger Dod, Robert Phipps Dod, ''Dod's parliamentary companion'', Publisher Dod's Parliamentary Companion, ltd., 1943.page 421"Sir Adam Maitland", ''The Times'' (London), Saturday, 8 Octo ...
*Labour:
John Belcher[Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1939]
Elections in the 1940s
Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1990s
References
*British parliamentary election results, 1885-1918 by Fred W. S. Craig
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Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1885
Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1997
Parliamentary constituencies in Kent (historic)