Thanet East | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Thanet East in Kent, showing boundaries used from 1974-1983 | |
County | Kent |
Major settlements | Ramsgate and Broadstairs |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | None |
Seats | One |
Created from | South Thanet |
February 1974–1983 | |
Created from | Isle of Thanet |
Replaced by | Thanet South[1] |
Thanet East was a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet in Kent. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1974 to 1983.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established (as East Thanet) for the next general election. It will be formed primarily from South Thanet.[2]
The Borough of Ramsgate, and the Urban District of Broadstairs and St Peter's.
The constituency will be composed of the following (as they existed on 1 December 2020):
It will comprise those parts of the, to be abolished, constituency of South Thanet in the District of Thanet (83% of the electorate), together with three wards from North Thanet, including Central Margate.[4]
Electoral Calculus categorises the proposed seat as a "Somewhere" demographic, indicating socially conservative, economically soft left views and strong support for Brexit.[5]
The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, when the former constituency of Isle of Thanet was split in two, and returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when Thanet East and the neighbouring Thanet West constituency were replaced by new North Thanet and South Thanet constituencies.
Election | Member | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Jonathan Aitken | Conservative | |
1983 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Craig Mackinlay[6] | ||||
Labour | Polly Billington[7] | ||||
Green | Steve Roberts[8][9] | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Aitken | 20,367 | 57.17 | +11.1 | |
Labour | I Kilberry | 10,128 | 28.43 | -4.6 | |
Liberal | B Hesketh | 4,755 | 13.35 | -5.6 | |
National Front | B Dobing | 376 | 1.06 | -1.0 | |
Majority | 10,239 | 28.74 | +15.6 | ||
Turnout | 35,625 | 72.72 | +1.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Aitken | 15,813 | 46.10 | -0.8 | |
Labour | S Bartlett | 11,310 | 32.97 | +0.4 | |
Liberal | C Hogarth | 6,472 | 18.87 | -4.6 | |
National Front | K Munson | 708 | 2.06 | New | |
Majority | 4,503 | 13.13 | -4.1 | ||
Turnout | 34,302 | 71.55 | -9.0 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Jonathan Aitken | 17,944 | 46.86 | ||
Labour | Robert Bean | 11,347 | 29.64 | ||
Liberal | J Cox | 8,997 | 23.50 | ||
Majority | 6,597 | 17.22 | |||
Turnout | 38,289 | 80.53 | |||
Conservative win (new seat) |