Thanet East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
County | Kent |
Major settlements | Ramsgate and Broadstairs |
February 1974–1983 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Isle of Thanet |
Replaced by | Thanet South[1] |
Thanet East was a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet in Kent. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established (as East Thanet) for the next general election. It will be formed primarily from South Thanet.[2]
The Borough of Ramsgate, and the Urban District of Broadstairs and St Peter's.
Electoral Calculus categorises the proposed seat as a "Somewhere" demographic, indicating socially conservative, economically soft left views and strong support for Brexit.[3]
The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, when the former constituency of Isle of Thanet was split in two, and returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when Thanet East and the neighbouring Thanet West constituency were replaced by new North Thanet and South Thanet constituencies.
Election | Member | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Jonathan Aitken | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Aitken | 20,367 | 57.17 | +11.1 | |
Labour | I Kilberry | 10,128 | 28.43 | -4.6 | |
Liberal | B Hesketh | 4,755 | 13.35 | -5.6 | |
National Front | B Dobing | 376 | 1.06 | -1.0 | |
Majority | 10,239 | 28.74 | +15.6 | ||
Turnout | 35,625 | 72.72 | +1.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Aitken | 15,813 | 46.10 | -0.8 | |
Labour | S Bartlett | 11,310 | 32.97 | +0.4 | |
Liberal | C Hogarth | 6,472 | 18.87 | -4.6 | |
National Front | K Munson | 708 | 2.06 | New | |
Majority | 4,503 | 13.13 | -4.1 | ||
Turnout | 34,302 | 71.55 | -9.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Aitken | 17,944 | 46.86 | ||
Labour | Robert Bean | 11,347 | 29.64 | ||
Liberal | J Cox | 8,997 | 23.50 | ||
Majority | 6,597 | 17.22 | |||
Turnout | 38,289 | 80.53 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |