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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    single 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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    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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  • (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • The region of South East England is divided into 84 parliamentary constituencies, which are made up of 23 borough constituencies and 61 county constituencies...
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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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  • EFFD 2014 by-elections Clacton Rochester & Strood 2015 general election South Thanet polling UKIP: The First 100 Days Meet the Ukippers Brexit referendum...
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    British Labour Party politician serving as Member of Parliament for East Thanet since 2024. Prior to her election she was an environmental campaigner and...
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    July 1994 Conservative Major II Kenneth Clarke Jonathan Aitken MP for South Thanet 20 July 1994 5 July 1995 Conservative William Waldegrave MP for Bristol...
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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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  • Salmestone, Thanet Villages, West Bay, Westbrook, Westgate-on-Sea. Cuxton and Halling, Peninsula, River, Rochester East, Rochester South and Horsted,...
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  • 2023 by-election, and stood in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. Incumbent MP for South Cambridgeshire, contesting St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire Elected in the...
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