Chatham was a parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament 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.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1832 | William Leader Maberly | Liberal | |
| 1834 by-election | George Stevens Byng | Liberal | |
| 1835 | Sir John Poer Beresford, Bt. | Conservative | |
| 1837 | George Stevens Byng | Liberal | |
| 1852 | Sir John Mark Frederick Smith | Conservative | |
| 1853 by-election | Leicester Viney Vernon | Conservative | |
| 1857 | Sir John Mark Frederick Smith | Conservative | |
| 1865 | Arthur Otway | Liberal | |
| 1874 | George Elliot | Conservative | |
| 1875 by-election | Sir John Eldon Gorst | Conservative | |
| 1892 | Lewis Vivian Loyd | Conservative | |
| 1895 | Sir Horatio David Davies | Conservative | |
| 1906 | John Hagan Jenkins | Conservative | |
| 1910 | Gerald Fitzroy Hohler | Conservative | |
| 1918 | John Moore-Brabazon | Conservative | |
| 1929 | Sydney Frank Markham | Labour | |
| 1931 | Sir Park Goff | Conservative | |
| 1935 | Leonard Plugge | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Arthur Bottomley | Labour | |
| 1950 | constituency abolished: see Rochester and Chatham | ||
References
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
Coordinates: 51°22′N 0°32′E / 51.367°N 0.533°E
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