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    South Thanet was a constituency in Kent. The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies made moderate boundary changes to the constituency, which...
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    East Thanet is a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet in Kent. It previously existed, under the name Thanet East, from 1974 to 1983...
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    51°22′N 1°23′E / 51.367°N 1.383°E / 51.367; 1.383 Thanet /ˈθænɪt/ is a local government district in Kent, England. The council is based in Margate and...
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    At the 2015 general election, Farage was an unsuccessful candidate in South Thanet. After the successful referendum, Farage resigned as UKIP's leader. In...
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    businessman. From 2015 to 2024, he was the last Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet. Initially a member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Mackinlay served...
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    years later, he stood in the general election in the constituency of South Thanet, finishing second to the Conservative Craig Mackinlay, with 32.4% of...
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    MEP". The Spectator. "Election of a Member of Parliament: South Thanet Constituency". Thanet District Council. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015...
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    2024 general election. North Thanet and South Thanet were created by a rearrangement of the former Thanet West and Thanet East constituencies in 1983,...
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    & Ashstone; Sandwich. The District of Thanet wards of: Birchington North; Birchington South; Garlinge; Thanet Villages; Westbrook; Westgate-on-Sea. It...
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    British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet from 1997 until 2010. He served as a minister in the government of Tony...
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  • 1885 The Sittingbourne and Sheppey constituency was created in 1997 The South Thanet constituency was created in 1983 The Tonbridge and Malling constituency...
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    The Isle of Thanet (/ˈθænɪt/) is a peninsula forming the easternmost part of Kent, England. While in the past it was separated from the mainland by the...
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    one seat, Clacton. The party's leader, Nigel Farage, failed to win in South Thanet. The Green Party of England and Wales won its highest ever vote share...
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    known as Minster-in-Thanet, is a village and civil parish in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is the site of Minster in Thanet Priory. The village...
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  • List of parliamentary constituencies in Kent (category Parliamentary constituencies in South East England)
    respectively. Changes to North Thanet and South Thanet would result in them being replaced by Herne Bay and Sandwich, and East Thanet respectively. Although only...
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  • (above), he was elected as MP for Thanet East in the February 1974 general election; from 1983 he sat for South Thanet. He managed to offend PM Margaret...
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    Conservative Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Thanet between 2010 and 2015. The daughter of Duncan Sandys through his second...
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    House of Commons Craig Mackinlay JP – Lately Member of Parliament for South Thanet. The Rt Hon Theresa May – Lately Member of Parliament for Maidenhead...
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  • Farage stated that he would resign as party leader if he did not win South Thanet. On failing to do so, he resigned, although was reinstated three days...
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  • a one-woman show, The Lynching. She held the roles of Vice-Chair of South Thanet Constituency Labour Party and Vice-Chair of Momentum before being suspended...
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    Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about 80 miles (130 km) east of London. It is part of...
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  • Salmestone, Thanet Villages, West Bay, Westbrook, Westgate-on-Sea. Cuxton and Halling, Peninsula, River, Rochester East, Rochester South and Horsted,...
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    Conservative East Thanet Conservative Polly Billington Labour Craig Mackinlay, incumbent for the predecessor seat of South Thanet, did not stand East...
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    general election, when Thanet West and the neighbouring Thanet East constituency were replaced by new North Thanet and South Thanet constituencies. The Borough...
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  • News for You and was asked to justify such defamatory comments about South Thanet, the constituency where Nigel Farage, then UKIP leader, was standing...
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  • and The Isle of Axholme Dorset South Dover and Deal Dudley Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard Earley and Woodley East Thanet East Worthing and Shoreham Eltham...
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  • Thumbnail for Thanet Loop
    The Thanet Loop is a circular bus route which operates on the Isle of Thanet peninsula in Kent, England. It is operated by Stagecoach South East. The...
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    Ramsgate (category Thanet)
    Ramsgate is a seaside town and civil parish in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th...
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  • Represented predecessor seat Bury St Edmunds. Represented predecessor seat South Thanet. Represented predecessor seat Leigh. Elected for new seat Hitchin "Election...
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    former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband joined Caroline Lucas and former South Thanet Conservative MP Laura Sandys in calling for a Green New Deal in the UK...
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