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For the district, see <a href="/wiki/Gravesham" title="Gravesham">Gravesham</a>.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, 1983 onwards</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org">Gravesham</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/County_constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="County constituency">County constituency</a><br /><span class="category">for the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="250" data-height="200" data-overlays="["_e182c506a3346703c87fae21f7a6a7c21fcdee08"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,250x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Gravesham_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&revid=1257590267&groups=_e182c506a3346703c87fae21f7a6a7c21fcdee08" width="250" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,a,a,a,250x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Gravesham_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29&revid=1257590267&groups=_e182c506a3346703c87fae21f7a6a7c21fcdee08 2x" alt="Map" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Boundaries since 1983</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:South_East_England_-_Gravesham_constituency.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Map of constituency" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/South_East_England_-_Gravesham_constituency.svg/255px-South_East_England_-_Gravesham_constituency.svg.png" decoding="async" width="255" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/South_East_England_-_Gravesham_constituency.svg/383px-South_East_England_-_Gravesham_constituency.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/South_East_England_-_Gravesham_constituency.svg/510px-South_East_England_-_Gravesham_constituency.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1239" data-file-height="946" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Boundary of Gravesham in South East England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Electoral_registration_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Electoral registration in the United Kingdom">Electorate</a></th><td class="infobox-data">72,866 (2023) <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Major settlements</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gravesend,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravesend, Kent">Gravesend</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ccf;">Current constituency</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Sullivan" title="Lauren Sullivan">Lauren Sullivan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Labour_UK" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour UK">Labour UK</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data">One</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width: 50%">Created from</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gravesend_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency)">Gravesend</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gravesham</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɡ/: 'g' in 'guy'">ɡ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'v' in 'vie'">v</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/əm/: 'm' in 'rhythm'">əm</span></span>/</a></span></span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">constituency</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>, represented by <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Sullivan" title="Lauren Sullivan">Lauren Sullivan</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> since July 2024. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Constituency_profile">Constituency profile</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Constituency profile"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The seat covers the historic riverside town of Gravesend and a more rural area extending to <a href="/wiki/Higham,_Kent" title="Higham, Kent">Higham</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vigo_Village" title="Vigo Village">Vigo Village</a> on the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs" title="North Downs">North Downs</a>. The electorate voted strongly to leave in the <a href="/wiki/2016_EU_referendum" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 EU referendum">2016 EU referendum</a>. Health and wealth are roughly average for the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boundaries">Boundaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Boundaries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>1983–present</b>: The Borough of Gravesham wards of: Central; Chalk; Coldharbour; Higham; Istead Rise; Meopham North; Meopham South and Vigo; Northfleet North; Northfleet South; Painters Ash; Pelham; Riverside; Riverview; Shorne, Cobham and Luddesdown; Singlewell; Westcourt, Whitehill; Woodlands.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the constituency's creation, its boundaries have been co-terminous with those of the <a href="/wiki/Gravesham" title="Gravesham">Borough of Gravesham</a>. The largest town in the constituency is <a href="/wiki/Gravesend,_Kent" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravesend, Kent">Gravesend</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/2023_Periodic_Review_of_Westminster_constituencies" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies">2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies</a> left the boundaries unchanged.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This particular name of the seat was created in 1983 effectively as the new name for the <a href="/wiki/Gravesend_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency)">Gravesend seat</a>. </p><p>The constituency and its predecessor together can be considered a <a href="/wiki/Bellwether" title="Bellwether">bellwether</a> seat: from <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, with the exceptions of the General Elections in <a href="/wiki/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1929 United Kingdom general election">1929</a>, <a href="/wiki/1951_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1951 United Kingdom general election">1951</a> and <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a>, its winner came from the winning party nationally.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Holloway" title="Adam Holloway">Adam Holloway</a> was one of 36 Conservative candidates to gain a seat from other parties; he held the seat until <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> gained it for the first time in 19 years with the election of <a href="/wiki/Lauren_Sullivan" title="Lauren Sullivan">Lauren Sullivan</a> as MP. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Gravesend_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gravesend (UK Parliament constituency)">Gravesend</a> prior to 1983</i> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2">Election</th> <th>Member<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Party </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tim_Brinton" title="Tim Brinton">Tim Brinton</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Arnold" title="Jacques Arnold">Jacques Arnold</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chris_Pond" title="Chris Pond">Chris Pond</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Adam_Holloway" title="Adam Holloway">Adam Holloway</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Sullivan" title="Lauren Sullivan">Lauren Sullivan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections">Elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2020s">Elections in the 2020s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2020s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">General election 2024</a>: Gravesham <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Sullivan" title="Lauren Sullivan">Lauren Sullivan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>16,623 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+9.1 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Adam_Holloway" title="Adam Holloway">Adam Holloway</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,911 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−30.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #12B6CF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_UK" title="Reform UK">Reform UK</a> </td> <td class="fn">Matthew Fraser Moat </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,910 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Rebecca Hopkins </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,254 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ukonu Obasi </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,534 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,712 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43,232 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+19.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2010s">Elections in the 2010s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2010s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2019_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2019 United Kingdom general election">2019 general election</a>: Gravesham <sup id="cite_ref-Statement_of_persons_nominated_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Statement_of_persons_nominated-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Adam_Holloway" title="Adam Holloway">Adam Holloway</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>29,580 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>62.2 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Lauren Sullivan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,999 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ukonu Obasi </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,584 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Marna Gilligan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,397 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,581 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+13.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47,560 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">64.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.8 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election</a>: Gravesham </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Adam_Holloway" title="Adam Holloway">Adam Holloway</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>27,237 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.6 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+8.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mandy Garford </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,890 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Emmanuel Feyisetan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,742 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">James Willis </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,210 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Marna Gilligan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">723 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Michael Rogan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">195 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,347 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49,106 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+1.2 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2015_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2015 United Kingdom general election">2015 general election</a>: Gravesham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2015_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2015-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Adam_Holloway" title="Adam Holloway">Adam Holloway</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>23,484 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.8 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Tanmanjeet_Singh_Dhesi" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi">Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,114 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sean Marriott </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,306 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18.6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+13.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Mark Lindop </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,124 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.8 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Anne-Marie Bunting </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,111 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,370 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">50,139 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−1.5 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2010_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2010 United Kingdom general election">2010 general election</a>: Gravesham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2010_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2010-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Adam_Holloway" title="Adam Holloway">Adam Holloway</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>22,956 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.5 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Co-operative" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Co-operative">Labour Co-op</a> </td> <td class="fn">Kathryn Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,644 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Anna_Arrowsmith" class="mw-redirect" title="Anna Arrowsmith">Anna Arrowsmith</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,293 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Geoffrey Clark </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,265 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #915F6D; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/English_Democrats" title="English Democrats">English Democrat</a> </td> <td class="fn">Steve Uncles </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,005 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #02A95B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales" title="Green Party of England and Wales">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Richard Crawford </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">675 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alice Dartnell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">465 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.0 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,312 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+18.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47,303 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">67.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.6 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+9.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_2000s">Elections in the 2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Elections in the 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a>: Gravesham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2005_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2005-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Adam_Holloway" title="Adam Holloway">Adam Holloway</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>19,739 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.9 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Pond" title="Chris Pond">Chris Pond</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,085 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bruce Parmenter </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,851 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">Geoff Coates </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">850 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">English Independence Party </td> <td class="fn">Christopher Nickerson </td> <td style="text-align:right;">654 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.4 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">654 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45,179 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+6.3 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/2001_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2001 United Kingdom general election">2001 general election</a>: Gravesham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus2001_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus2001-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Chris_Pond" title="Chris Pond">Chris Pond</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,773 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.9 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Arnold" title="Jacques Arnold">Jacques Arnold</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,911 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Bruce Parmenter </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,031 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #6D3177; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> </td> <td class="fn">William Jenner </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">924 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,862 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43,639 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−14.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1990s">Elections in the 1990s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1997_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1997 United Kingdom general election">1997 general election</a>: Gravesham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1997_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1997-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E4003B; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Chris_Pond" title="Chris Pond">Chris Pond</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>26,460 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+9.3 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #0087DC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Arnold" title="Jacques Arnold">Jacques Arnold</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,681 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Merilyn Canet </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,128 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.1 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #bf475c; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Referendum_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Referendum Party (UK)">Referendum</a> </td> <td class="fn">Patricia Curtis </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,441 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.7 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">Independent Labour </td> <td class="fn">Anthony Leyshon </td> <td style="text-align:right;">414 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.8 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #ffe4e1; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party" title="Natural Law Party">Natural Law</a> </td> <td class="fn">David Palmer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">129 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,779 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>N/A</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53,253 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #E4003B"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-10.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992 general election</a>: Gravesham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1992_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1992-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Arnold" title="Jacques Arnold">Jacques Arnold</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>29,322 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.7 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.4 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Graham A. Green </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">23,829 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FAA61A; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Derek R. Deedman </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,269 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.9 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">AJ Bunstone </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">273 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DDEEFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Conservative">Ind. Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn">REB Khilkoff-Boulding </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">187 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px">Independent Socialist </td> <td class="fn">BJ Buxton </td> <td style="text-align:right;">174 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><i>New</i> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,493 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59,054 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">−3.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections_in_the_1980s">Elections in the 1980s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Elections in the 1980s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987 general election</a>: Gravesham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1987_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1987-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Arnold" title="Jacques Arnold">Jacques Arnold</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>28,891 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.1 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+2.7 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Martin Coleman </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,099 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.8 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td class="org" style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFD700"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> (<a href="/wiki/SDP-Liberal_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="SDP-Liberal Alliance">Alliance</a>) </td> <td class="fn">Robert Crawford </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,724 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.1 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−4.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,792 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57,714 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.3 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color: #0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <th style="text-align:right;"><a href="/wiki/Swing_(politics)" title="Swing (politics)">Swing</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right;">-0.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983 general election</a>: Gravesham<sup id="cite_ref-electoralcalculus1983_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-electoralcalculus1983-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Tim_Brinton" title="Tim Brinton">Tim Brinton</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>25,968 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>47.4 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #E4003B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Ovenden" title="John Ovenden">John Ovenden</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,505 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.9 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td class="org" style="color:inherit;background-color:#6C2f56"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">SDP</a> (<a href="/wiki/SDP-Liberal_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="SDP-Liberal Alliance">Alliance</a>) </td> <td class="fn">M Horton </td> <td style="text-align:right;">10,826 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.7 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: MidnightBlue; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/National_Front_(UK)" title="National Front (UK)">National Front</a> </td> <td class="fn">P Johnson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">420 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.8 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: yellowgreen; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Ecology_Party_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecology Party (UK)">Ecology</a> </td> <td class="fn">Martin Sewell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">103 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.2 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,463 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.5 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">54,822 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#0087DC"> </td> <td colspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <b>win</b> (new seat) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_Kent" title="List of parliamentary constituencies in Kent">List of parliamentary constituencies in Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_constituencies_in_South_East_England" title="Parliamentary constituencies in South East England">List of parliamentary constituencies in the South East England (region)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gravesham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output 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href="/wiki/Chatham_and_Aylesford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Chatham and Aylesford (UK Parliament constituency)">Chatham and Aylesford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crawley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Crawley (UK Parliament constituency)">Crawley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dartford_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dartford (UK Parliament constituency)">Dartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_and_Deal_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Dover and Deal (UK Parliament constituency)">Dover and Deal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earley_and_Woodley_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Earley and Woodley (UK Parliament constituency)">Earley and Woodley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Thanet_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Thanet (UK Parliament constituency)">East Thanet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Worthing_and_Shoreham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Worthing and Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)">East Worthing and Shoreham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folkestone_and_Hythe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Folkestone and Hythe (UK Parliament constituency)">Folkestone and Hythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gillingham_and_Rainham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Gillingham and Rainham (UK Parliament constituency)">Gillingham and Rainham</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Gravesham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hastings_and_Rye_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hastings and Rye (UK Parliament constituency)">Hastings and Rye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hove_and_Portslade_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hove and Portslade (UK Parliament constituency)">Hove and Portslade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Isle of Wight West (UK Parliament constituency)">Isle of Wight West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Milton Keynes Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Milton Keynes Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Keynes_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Milton Keynes North (UK Parliament constituency)">Milton Keynes North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford_East_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Oxford East (UK Parliament constituency)">Oxford East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Portsmouth North (UK Parliament constituency)">Portsmouth North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portsmouth_South_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Portsmouth South (UK Parliament constituency)">Portsmouth South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading_Central_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading Central (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading Central</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reading_West_and_Mid_Berkshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Reading West and Mid Berkshire (UK Parliament constituency)">Reading West and Mid Berkshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rochester_and_Strood_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Rochester and Strood (UK Parliament constituency)">Rochester and Strood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sittingbourne_and_Sheppey_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Sittingbourne and Sheppey (UK Parliament constituency)">Sittingbourne and Sheppey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slough_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Slough (UK Parliament constituency)">Slough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southampton_Itchen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southampton Itchen (UK Parliament constituency)">Southampton Itchen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southampton_Test_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Southampton Test (UK Parliament constituency)">Southampton Test</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worthing_West_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Worthing West (UK Parliament constituency)">Worthing West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wycombe_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Wycombe (UK Parliament constituency)">Wycombe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a 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