List of Members of Parliament in Kent

This is a list of Members of Parliament in Kent, covering each of the seats in the English county, except Kent (to 1832), East Kent (1832–1885), West Kent (1832–1885), and Mid Kent (1868–1885).

Not to be confused with List of Parliamentary constituencies in Kent.

Ashford
Ashford constituency

The Ashford constituency was created in 1885.

ElectionMemberParty
1885 William Pomfret Pomfret Conservative
1892 Laurence Hardy Conservative
1918 Samuel Strang Steel Coalition Conservative
1929 Rev. Roderick Kedward Liberal
1931 Michael Knatchbull Conservative
1933 by-election Patrick Spens Conservative
1943 by-election Edward Percy Smith Conservative
1950 Bill Deedes Conservative
1974 Keith Speed Conservative
1997 Damian Green Conservative

Canterbury

The Canterbury constituency was created in 1295.

MPs 1660–1880
Year First member Second member
1660 Sir Anthony Aucher Heneage Finch,later Earl of Nottingham
1661 Francis Lovelace Sir Edward Master
1664 Thomas Hardres
Feb 1679 Edward Hales William Jacob
Aug 1679 Sir Thomas Hardres
1681 Lewis Watson Vincent Denne
1685 Sir William Honywood, 2nd Baronet Henry Lee
1695 George Sayer
1698 Henry Lee
1705 John Hardres
1708 Edward Watson Sir Thomas D'Aeth, 1st Baronet
1710 John Hardres Henry Lee
1715 Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet
1722 Samuel Milles
1727 Sir William Hardres, 4th Baronet
1734 Thomas May
1735 Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet
1741 Thomas Watson Thomas Best
1746 Sir Thomas Hales, 2nd Baronet
1747 Matthew Robinson-Morris
1754 Sir James Creed
1761 Richard Milles Thomas Best
1768 William Lynch
1774 Sir William Mayne,later Baron Newhaven
1780 George Gipps Charles Robinson
1790 Sir John Honywood, 4th Baronet
1796 John Baker Samuel Elias Sawbridge
Election declared void 2 Mar 1797
Mar 1797 John Baker Samuel Elias Sawbridge
May 1797 Sir John Honywood George Gipps
1800 George Watson
1802 John Baker
1806 James Simmons
Feb 1807 Samuel Elias Sawbridge
May 1807 Edward Taylor
1812 Stephen Rumbold Lushington
1818 Edward Bligh, Baron Clifton
1830 Richard Watson George Cowper, Viscount Fordwich
Jan 1835 Lord Albert Denison Conyngham Frederick Villiers
Mar 1835 Stephen Rumbold Lushington
1837 James Bradshaw
1841 George Smythe
1847 Lord Albert Denison Conyngham
1850 Frederick Romilly
1852 Henry Plumptre Gipps Henry Butler-Johnstone
Constituency representation suspended (1853)
1854 Charles Manners Lushington Sir William Meredyth Somerville
1857 Henry Butler-Johnstone
1862 Henry Alexander Munro Butler-Johnstone, Conservative
1865 John Walter Huddleston, Conservative
1868 Theodore Henry Brinckman, Liberal
1874 Lewis Ashurst Majendie, Conservative
1878 Alfred Erskine Gathorne-Hardy, Conservative
1879 Robert Peter Laurie, Conservative
Constituency representation suspended (1880)

MPs since 1885
Canterbury constituency
  • Constituency representation restored and reduced to one (1885)
ElectionMemberParty
1885 John Henniker Heaton Conservative
December 1910 Francis Bennett-Goldney Conservative
1918 by-election George Knox Anderson Conservative
1918 Ronald McNeill Conservative
1927 by-election William Wayland Conservative
1945 John Baker White Conservative
1953 by-election Leslie Thomas Conservative
1966 David Crouch Conservative
1987 Julian Brazier Conservative
Chatham and Aylesford constituency

Chatham and Aylesford

The Chatham and Aylesford constituency was created in 1997

ElectionMemberParty
1997 Jonathan Shaw Labour
2010 Tracey Crouch Conservative

Dartford

The Dartford constituency was created in 1885

MPs 1885–1945
ElectionMemberParty
1885 Sir William Hart Dyke Conservative
1906 James Rowlands Liberal
1910 William Foot Mitchell Conservative
1910 James Rowlands Liberal
1920 John Edmund Mills Labour
1922 George William Symonds Jarrett Constitutionalist
1923 John Edmund Mills Labour
1924 Angus McDonnell Conservative
1929 John Edmund Mills Labour
1931 Frank Edward Clarke Conservative
1938 Jennie Adamson Labour

MPs since 1945
Dartford Constituency

The constituency was split in 1945, with half becoming the new Bexley seat

ElectionMemberParty
1945 Norman Dodds Labour Co-operative
1955 Sydney Irving Labour Co-operative
1970 Peter Trew Conservative
1974 Sydney Irving Labour Co-operative
1979 Bob Dunn Conservative
1997 Howard Stoate Labour

Dover
Dover Constituency
ElectionMemberParty
1945 John Thomas Labour
1950 John Arbuthnot Conservative
1964 David Ennals Labour
1970 Peter Rees Conservative
1987 David Shaw Conservative
1997 Gwyn Prosser Labour
2010 Charlie Elphicke Conservative
Faversham and Mid Kent constituency

Faversham and Mid Kent

The Faversham and Mid Kent constituency was created in 1997

ElectionMemberParty
1997 Andrew Rowe Conservative
2001 Hugh Robertson Conservative

Folkestone and Hythe
Folkestone and Hythe constituency

The Folkestone and Hythe constituency was created in 1950

ElectionMemberParty
1950 Harry Ripley Mackeson Conservative
1959 Sir Albert Costain Conservative
1983 Michael Howard Conservative
2010 Damian Collins Conservative

Gillingham
Gillingham constituency

The Gillingham constituency was created in 1918

ElectionMemberParty
1918 Constituency created
1918 Sir Gerald Fitzroy Hohler Conservative
1929 Sir Robert Vaughan Gower Conservative
1945 Joseph Binns Labour
1950 Sir Frederick Burden Conservative
1983 James Couchman Conservative
1997 Paul Clark Labour
2010 Constituency abolished: see extended constituency of Gillingham and Rainham.

Gravesham
Gravesham constituency

The Gravesham constituency was created in 1983

ElectionMemberParty
1983 Timothy Brinton Conservative
1987 Jacques Arnold Conservative
1997 Chris Pond Labour
2005 Adam Holloway Conservative

Maidstone and The Weald

The Maidstone and The Weald constituency, originally named "Maidstone", was created in 1560. Up until 1885 it elected two MPs. In 1997 the name was changed to "Maidstone and The Weald".

MPs 1660–1885
YearFirst memberSecond member
1660, AprilThomas TwisdenRobert Barnham
1660, AugustSir Edward Hales
1661Sir Edmund Pierce
1668Thomas Harlackenden
1679, FebruarySir John TuftonSir John Darell
1679, AugustThomas Fane
1685, MarchArchibald Clinkard
1685, NovemberEdwin Wyatt
1689Sir Thomas TaylorCaleb Banks
1690Thomas Rider
1695Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet
1696Thomas Rider
1698Sir Robert MarshamThomas Bliss
1702Sir Thomas Roberts
1704Heneage FinchThomas Bliss
1705Sir Thomas Colepeper
1708Sir Robert Marsham
1713Sir Samuel Ongley
1715Sir Thomas Colepeper
1716Sir Barnham Rider
1722John Finch
1723Sir Barnham Rider
1727Thomas Hope
1734William Horsemonden-Turner
1740Robert Fairfax
1741Lord GuernseyJohn Bligh
1747William Horsemonden-TurnerRobert Fairfax
1753Gabriel Hanger
1754Lord Guernsey
1757Savile Finch
1761Rose FullerWilliam Northey
1768Charles MarshamRobert Gregory
1774Sir Horatio MannLord Guernsey
1777Charles Finch
1780Clement Taylor
1784Gerard Edwards
1788Sir Matthew Bloxham
1796Oliver de Lancey
1802John Hodsdon Durand
1806George SimsonGeorge Longman
1812Samuel Egerton Brydges
1818Abraham Wildey RobartsGeorge Longman
1820John Wells
1830Henry Winchester
1831Charles James Barnett
1835Wyndham Lewis
1837Benjamin Disraeli
1838John Minet Fector
1841Alexander Beresford-HopeGeorge Dodd
1852James Whatman
1853William Lee
1857Alexander Beresford-HopeEdward Scott
1859William LeeCharles Buxton
1865James Whatman
1870Sir John Lubbock
1874Sir Sydney Waterlow
1880Alexander Henry RossJohn Freke-Aylmer
1885Reduced to one member

MPs 1885–present
Maidstone and The Weald constituency
ElectionMemberParty
1885 Alexander Henry Ross
1888 by-election Fiennes Cornwallis Conservative
1895 Sir Frederick Hunt
1898 by-election Fiennes Cornwallis Conservative
1900 John Barker Liberal
1901 by-election Sir Francis Evans
1906 Viscount Castlereagh
1915 by-election Carlyon Bellairs Conservative
1931 Sir Alfred Charles Bossom Conservative
1959 John Wells Conservative
1987 Ann Widdecombe Conservative
2010 Helen Grant Conservative

Medway

The Medway constituency was created in 1885

Medway constituency
ElectionMemberParty
1885 John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy Conservative
1892 Charles Warde Conservative

The constituency was abolished in 1918 and recreated in 1983

ElectionMemberParty
1983 Dame Peggy Fenner Conservative
1997 Bob Marshall-Andrews Labour
2010 Constituency abolished: see Rochester and Strood
North Thanet constituency

North Thanet

The North Thanet constituency was created in 1983

ElectionMemberParty
1983 Roger Gale Conservative

Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks constituency

The Sevenoaks constituency was created in 1885

ElectionMemberParty
1885 Charles William Mills Conservative
1892 Henry William Forster Conservative
1918 Sir Thomas Jewell Bennett Coalition Conservative
1923 Ronald Samuel Ainslie Williams Liberal
1924 Herbert Walter Styles Conservative
1929 Sir Edward Hilton Young Conservative
1935 Charles Ponsonby Conservative
1950 Sir John Rodgers Conservative
1979 Mark Wolfson Conservative
1997 Michael Fallon Conservative
Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency

Sittingbourne and Sheppey

The Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency was created in 1997

ElectionMemberParty
1997 Derek Wyatt Labour
2010 Gordon Henderson Conservative

South Thanet
South Thanet constituency

The South Thanet constituency was created in 1983

ElectionMemberParty
1983 Jonathan Aitken Conservative
1997 Stephen Ladyman Labour
2010 Laura Sandys Conservative

Tonbridge and Malling
Tonbridge and Malling constituency

The Tonbridge and Malling constituency was created in 1974

ElectionMemberParty
Feb. 1974 Sir John Stanley Conservative

Tunbridge Wells
Tunbridge Wells constituency

The Tunbridge Wells constituency was created in 1974

ElectionMemberParty
Feb. 1974 Patrick Mayhew Conservative
1997 Archie Norman Conservative
2005 Greg Clark Conservative

See also
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