County Kent Created 2010 European Parliament constituency South East England Number of members 1 | Electorate 71,109 (December 2010) Created from Gillingham Member of parliament Rehman Chishti Replaced by Gillingham | |
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Major settlements Gillingham, Rainham, Hempstead, Twydall | ||
Gillingham and Rainham is a constituency in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its 2010 creation by Rehman Chishti, a Conservative. It replaced the previous constituency of Gillingham.
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Boundaries
The seat has electoral wards:
Constituency profile
The constituency is centred on the large town, historically a small port, convenient for access to the City of London, within the London Commuter Belt and adjoining the touristic town of Rochester which has a Cathedral and Castle. Local retail, industry, business parks, trades and professions provide constituents with a high level of employment mostly on moderate to middle incomes, however the area is not wholly resilient to unemployment. Registered claimants who were registered jobseekers were marginally lower than the national average of 3.8%, at 3.5% of the population according to a statistical compilation by The Guardian.