Chatham (UK Parliament constituency)
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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.
Chatham | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Kent |
Major settlements | Chatham |
1832–1950 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Kent |
Replaced by | Rochester & Chatham |
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 2010 election it was renamed Rochester and Strood.