Chatham (UK Parliament constituency)

Chatham
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
County	Kent
Major settlements	Chatham
1832–1950
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Rochester & Chatham
Created from	Kent

Chatham was a parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 1832 general election, when the borough of Chatham was enfranchised under the Reform Act 1832.

It was abolished for the 1950 general election, when it was largely replaced by the new Rochester and Chatham constituency. This then became Medway in 1983. When the boroughs of Rochester upon Medway and Gillingham merged to form the larger unitary Borough of Medway in 1998, the Parliamentary constituency of Medway only covered part of the new borough, so for the next election it will be renamed Rochester and Strood.

1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Rochester except part of St Peter's ward, and the Municipal Borough of Chatham wards of Luton and St John.

The sitting MP Sydney Frank Markham sought re-election as a National Labour candidate. However, the Conservatives refused to withdraw in his favour. As a result, he was forced to withdraw. Communist candidate Walter Hannington was also adopted but subsequently withdrew.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 3)

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