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Faversham was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Faversham in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Sittingbourne and Sheppey & Faversham and Mid Kent.
Boundaries
1885-1918: The Municipal Borough of Faversham, the Sessional Division of Faversham, and the corporate town of Queenborough.
1918-1950: The Municipal Boroughs of Faversham and Queenborough, the Urban Districts of Milton Regis, Sheerness, and Sittingbourne, the Rural Districts of Milton and Sheppey, and the Rural District of Faversham except the detached parts of the civil parishes of Dunkirk and Hernhill which were wholly surrounded by the Rural District of Blean.
1950-1983: The Municipal Boroughs of Faversham and Queenborough, the Urban Districts of Sheerness, and Sittingbourne and Milton, and the Rural Districts of Sheppey and Swale.
1983-1997: The Borough of Swale wards of Abbey, Borden, Davington Priory, East Downs, Eastern, Grove, Iwade and Lower Halstow, Kemsley, Milton Regis, Minster Cliffs, Murston, Newington, Queenborough and Halfway, Roman, St Ann's, Sheerness East, Sheerness West, Sheppey Central, Teynham and Lynsted, Watling, West Downs, and Woodstock.
Elections in the 1910s
General Election 1914/15:
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;
Elections in the 1930s
General Election 1939/40
Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected;