Rochester and Strood (constituency)

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The constituency with the boundaries of 2007

Rochester and Strood is a constituency of the British House of Commons in the county Kent . The constituency was created in its current form in 2010 and covers much of Rochester , Strood and Chatham . He sends a representative to parliament.

history

The constituency, considered wealthy and conservative, was created in 2010 from the former constituency of Medway and was represented by Mark Reckless after the 2010 general election until the 2015 general election. He switched from the Conservative Party to the UK Independence Party in August 2014 and was confirmed in office for this party in a by-election in November of the same year with 42.1% of the vote. This by-election, which took place just one month after Douglas Carswell, another former Tory defending his seat in parliament for UKIP in the Clacton constituency , also received a lot of media attention in German-speaking countries. The defeat was also seen as the personal defeat of Prime Minister David Cameron , who had visited the constituency five times during the election campaign for by-election without Kelly Tolhurst , the Conservative candidate being able to prevail.

Kelly Tolhurst has represented the constituency in the House of Commons since the general election in 2015, after defeating Reckless with 44.1% to 30.5% in the new clash between the two. She was confirmed in office in the 2017 general election with 54.3% of the vote.

The constituency had an unemployment rate of 3.5% in April 2013 . This value was thus slightly lower than the national average of 3.8%.

Previous representatives

  • Mark Reckless

  • Kelly Tolhurst

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Rásonyi, Rochester: Disturbed idyll in Rochester | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed November 30, 2019]).
  2. ↑ dpa: Great Britain: Ukip wins second parliamentary seat . In: The time . November 21, 2014, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 30, 2019]).
  3. ^ Oe1.orf.at: UKIP: New loss for Cameron. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Defectors become a danger to Cameron. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Simon Rogers, Lisa Evans: Unemployment: the key UK data and benefit claimants for every constituency. November 17, 2010, accessed November 30, 2019 .