Rochester and Strood
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Rochester and Strood (UK Parliament constituency)
| Rochester and Strood | |
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| County constituency | |
| for the House of Commons | |
 Boundary of Rochester and Strood in Kent. |
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 Location of Kent within England. |
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| County | Kent |
| Electorate | 75,001 (December 2010)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2010 |
| Member of Parliament | Mark Reckless (Conservative) |
| Number of members | One |
| Created from | Medway |
| Overlaps | |
| European Parliament constituency | South East England |
Rochester and Strood is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. The current MP is Mark Reckless of the Conservative Party.
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Description
Rochester and Strood constituency is located in north Kent alongside the River Medway estuary, with the River Thames on its north border. It is based on the Medway Towns of Chatham, Rochester and Strood and the villages of Strood Rural and the Hoo Peninsula.
Medway or Medway Towns are the collective names for the single conurbation, the largest conurbation in South East England outside London that compasses the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Rainham and their surrounding areas. Additionally there are several rural settlements on the Hoo Peninsula and on the west bank of the Medway valley.
Chatham town centre is an important sub-regional shopping centre and the proposed £1 billion regeneration programme will transform Chatham as Medway’s new town centre. Rochester and Strood Riversides are large urban brownfield sites, one of the most exciting development projects in the Thames Gateway. A substantial new mixed use developments will include some 3,000 plus new mixed tenure homes, offices and shops, two new hotels, restaurants, river walks and open spaces and links to historic Rochester.
History
The Rochester constituency is an old one, going back to the 16th century, but it saw many changes in the 20th century. In 1918 it was split between Chatham, Gillingham and the "old", rural, Medway constituency. The Chatham seat became Rochester and Chatham in 1950, and then 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 from the 2010 election the seat was renamed Rochester and Strood.
Boundaries
The electoral wards used to create this seat are as follows:
- Cuxton and Halling, Peninsula, River, Rochester East, Rochester South and Horsted, Rochester West, Strood North, Strood Rural and Strood South
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member [2] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Mark Reckless | Conservative | |
Elections
Elections in the 2010s
This seat was fought for the first time at the 2010 general election.
| General Election 2010: Rochester and Strood [3] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Mark Reckless | 23,604 | 49.2 | +6.6 | |
| Labour | Teresa Murray | 13,651 | 28.5 | −13.1 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Geoff Juby | 7,800 | 16.3 | +3.9 | |
| English Democrats | Ron Sands | 2,182 | 4.5 | N/A | |
| Green | Simon Marchant | 734 | 1.5 | N/A | |
| Majority | 9,953 | 20.7 | |||
| Turnout | 47,971 | 64.9 | +2.5 | ||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +9.8 | |||
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Electorate Figures - Boundary Commission for England". 2011 Electorate Figures. Boundary Commission for England. 4 March 2011. http://www.boundarycommissionforengland.org.uk/electoral-figures/electoral-figures.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)[self-published source?][better source needed]
- ^ "Rochester & Strood". BBC News. 7 May 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d72.stm.
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