Ashford (UK Parliament constituency)

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Ashford
County constituency

Ashford shown within Kent, and Kent shown within England
Created: 1885
MP: Damian Green
Party: Conservative
Type: House of Commons
County: Kent
EP constituency: South East England

Ashford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents

1 Boundaries

1.1 Boundary review

2 Members of Parliament
3 Elections
4 See also
5 References

Boundaries

Ashford constituency has the same boundaries as Ashford (borough). It comprises the rapidly expanding town of Ashford together with the smaller town of Tenterden and 35 villages.

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Kent, the Boundary Commission for England made major changes to the existing constituencies as a consequence of population expansion across the county.

The electoral wards used in the modified Ashford constituency are entirely within the borough of Ashford;

Aylesford Green, Beaver, Biddenden, Bockhanger, Boughton Aluph and Eastwell, Bybrook, Charing, Downs North, Downs West, Godinton, Great Chart with Singleton North, Highfield, Isle of Oxney, Kennington, Little Burton Farm, Norman, North Willesborough, Park Farm North, Park Farm South, Rolvenden and Tenterden West, St Michaels, Singleton South, South Willesborough, Stanhope, Stour, Tenterden North, Tenterden South, Victoria, Washford, Weald Central, Weald East, Weald North, Weald South and Wye

Members of Parliament

Constituency created (1885)
1885 — 1892: William Pomfret Pomfret
1892 — 1918: Laurence Hardy
1918 — 1929: Samuel Strang Steel, Conservative
1929 — 1931: Rev. Roderick Kedward, Liberal
1931 — 1933: Michael Knatchbull, Conservative
1933 — 1943: William Patrick Spens, Conservative
1943 — 1950: Edward Percy Smith, Conservative
1950 — 1974: Bill Deedes, Conservative
1974 — 1997: Keith Speed, Conservative
1997 — present: Damian Green, Conservative

Elections

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References

Constituencies in South East England
Conservative	Aldershot \| Arundel and South Downs \| Ashford \| Aylesbury \| Banbury \| Basingstoke \| Beaconsfield \| Bexhill and Battle \| Bognor Regis and Littlehampton \| Bracknell \| Buckingham \| Canterbury \| Chesham and Amersham \| Chichester \| East Hampshire \| East Surrey \| East Worthing and Shoreham \| Eastbourne \| Epsom and Ewell \| Esher and Walton \| Fareham \| Faversham and Mid Kent \| Folkestone and Hythe \| Gosport \| Gravesham \| Guildford \| Havant \| Henley \| Horsham \| Isle of Wight \| Maidenhead \| Maidstone and The Weald \| Mid Sussex \| Mole Valley \| New Forest East \| New Forest West \| Newbury \| North East Hampshire \| North East Milton Keynes \| North Thanet \| North West Hampshire \| Reading East \| Reigate \| Runnymede and Weybridge \| Sevenoaks \| South West Surrey \| Spelthorne \| Surrey Heath \| Tonbridge and Malling \| Tunbridge Wells \| Wantage \| Wealden \| Windsor \| Witney \| Woking \| Wokingham \| Worthing West \| Wycombe
Labour	Brighton Kemptown \| Brighton Pavilion \| Chatham and Aylesford \| Crawley \| Dartford \| Dover \| Gillingham \| Hastings and Rye \| Hove \| Medway \| Milton Keynes South West \| Oxford East \| Portsmouth North \| Reading West \| Sittingbourne and Sheppey \| Slough \| Southampton Itchen \| Southampton Test \| South Thanet
Liberal Democrat	Eastleigh \| Lewes \| Oxford West and Abingdon \| Portsmouth South \| Romsey \| Winchester
South East European constituency: Conservative (4) \| UKIP (2) \| Liberal Democrats (2) \| Labour (1) \| Green (1)

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