Rochester and Chatham was a parliamentary constituency in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
It largely replaced the former Chatham constituency, which had taken some of the previous Rochester seat in 1918. In turn it gave way to the Medway constituency in 1983, which was renamed Rochester and Strood in 2010.
Boundaries The Municipal Boroughs of Rochester and Chatham.
History This constituency was a Labour-Tory marginal seat throughout its 33-year existence.
The seat disappeared at the 1983 general election, and its territory was split between two new constituencies; 55.23% of it went to Medway, and 44.77% to Mid Kent.
Members of Parliament ElectionMemberParty 1950 Arthur Bottomley Labour 1959 Julian Critchley Conservative 1964 Anne Kerr Labour 1970 Peggy Fenner Conservative Oct 1974 Robert Bean Labour 1979 Peggy Fenner Conservative1983 constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1950s
Elections in the 1960s
Elections in the 1970s
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