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| South Thanet County constituency |
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| South Thanet shown within Kent, and Kent shown within England | |
| Created: | 1983 |
| MP: | Stephen Ladyman |
| Party: | Labour |
| Type: | House of Commons |
| County: | Kent |
| EP constituency: | South East England |
South Thanet is a 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.Traditionally Thanet South has been a Conservative seat and is considered to be marginal.
South Thanet and North Thanet were created by a rearrangement of the former Thanet West and Thanet East constituencies in 1983, which in turn had been created in 1974 by the splitting of the single Isle of Thanet seat.
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Boundaries
South Thanet consists of the southern part of Thanet district (the towns of Ramsgate and Broadstairs & St Peters, plus the villages of Cliffsend, Manston, Minster and Monkton) together with the northern part of Dover district, comprising the ancient Cinque Port of Sandwich and surrounding villages.
Boundary review
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Kent, the Boundary Commission for England has made major changes to the existing constituency arrangement as a consequence of population changes across the county.
The electoral wards used in the formation of the modified constituency are:
- Little Stour and Ashstone, and Sandwich from the district of Dover
- Beacon Road, Bradstowe, Central Harbour, Cliffsend and Pegwell, Cliftonville East, Cliftonville West, Eastcliff, Kingsgate, Nethercourt, Newington, Northwood, St Peters, Sir Moses Montefiore and Viking from the district of Thanet.
Members of Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1983 | Jonathan Aitken | Conservative | |
| 1997 | Stephen Ladyman | Labour | |
Election results
| Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election [1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Laura Sandys | ||||
| UKIP | Trevor Shonk | ||||
| General Election 2005: South Thanet | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Stephen Ladyman | 16,660 | 40.4 | -5.3 | |
| Conservative | Mark MacGregor | 15,996 | 38.8 | -2.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Guy Voizey | 5,431 | 13.2 | +3.8 | |
| UKIP | Nigel Farage | 2,079 | 5.0 | +3.7 | |
| Green | Howard Green | 888 | 2.2 | +2.2 | |
| Independent (politician) | Maude Kinsella | 188 | 0.5 | +0.5 | |
| Majority | 664 | 1.6 | |||
| Turnout | 41,242 | 65 | 1.1 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | -1.5 | |||
| General Election 2001: South Thanet | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Stephen Ladyman | 18,002 | 45.7 | -0.5 | |
| Conservative | Mark MacGregor | 16,210 | 41.1 | +1.3 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Guy Voizey | 3,706 | 9.4 | -2.3 | |
| Independent (politician) | William Baldwin | 770 | 2.0 | N/A | |
| UKIP | Terry Eccott | 502 | 1.3 | -0.1 | |
| National Front | Bernard Franklin | 242 | 0.6 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,792 | 4.6 | |||
| Turnout | 39,432 | 63.9 | -7.7 | ||
| Labour hold | Swing | ||||
References
See also
Coordinates: 51°18′N 1°22′E / 51.3°N 1.367°E
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