Mid Kent (UK Parliament constituency)

Mid Kent
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Kent
1983–1997
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Faversham & Mid Kent
Created from	Maidstone and Rochester & Chatham

Mid Kent was a county constituency in the county of Kent, which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

It was created for the 1983 general election from parts of the seats of Rochester and Chatham & Maidstone, and abolished for the 1997 general election.

A previous two-member constituency called Mid Kent existed from 1868 to 1885.

The City of Rochester-upon-Medway wards of Holcombe, Horsted, Lordswood, Luton, Walderslade, Wayfield, and Weedswood, and the Borough of Maidstone wards of Bearsted, Boxley, Detling, East, Harrietsham and Lenham, Hollingbourne, North, and Thurnham.

The constituency was predominantly rural between the urban areas of Medway and Maidstone.

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