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Historic Seat

South Thanet

🗳️ Election History

4
Elections
67.5%
Avg Turnout
0
Times Changed
2010
Current Party Since
Conservative Craig Mackinlay Hold
Majority 10,587
Turnout 65.9% ↓2.9pp
Total Votes 48,257
Winner Swing ↑5.3pp
✓ Craig Mackinlay
Conservative
27,084 56.1%
↑5.4pp
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt
Labour
16,497 34.2%
↓3.8pp
Martyn Pennington
Liberal Democrats
2,727 5.7%
↑2.6pp
Becky Wing
Green Party
1,949 4.0%
↑2.4pp
Conservative Craig Mackinlay Hold
Majority 6,387
Turnout 68.8% ↓0.8pp
Total Votes 49,753
Winner Swing ↑12.6pp
✓ Craig Mackinlay
Conservative
25,262 50.8%
↑12.6pp
Raushan Ara
Labour
18,875 37.9%
↑14.2pp
Stuart Piper
—
2,997 6.0%
↓26.4pp
Jordan Williams
Liberal Democrats
1,514 3.0%
↑1.2pp
Trevor Roper
Green Party
809 1.6%
↓0.6pp
Tim Garbutt
—
181 0.4%
—
Faith Fisher
—
115 0.2%
—
Conservative Craig MacKinlay Hold
Majority 2,812
Turnout 69.6% ↑4.0pp
Total Votes 49,401
Winner Swing ↓9.9pp
✓ Craig MacKinlay
Conservative
18,838 38.1%
↓9.9pp
Nigel Farage
—
16,026 32.4%
↑26.9pp
Will Scobie
Labour
11,740 23.8%
↓7.6pp
Ian Driver
Green Party
1,076 2.2%
—
Russell Timpson
Liberal Democrats
932 1.9%
↓13.2pp
Al Murray
—
318 0.6%
—
Ruth Bailey
—
191 0.4%
—
Nigel Askew
—
126 0.3%
—
Grahame Birchall
—
63 0.1%
—
Dean McCastree
—
61 0.1%
—
Zebadiah Abu-Obadiah
—
30 0.1%
—
Conservative Laura Sandys Hold
Majority 7,617
Turnout 65.6%
Total Votes 45,933
✓ Laura Sandys
Conservative
22,043 48.0%
↑6.8pp
Stephen Ladyman
Labour
14,426 31.4%
↓8.1pp
Peter Bucklitsch
Liberal Democrats
6,935 15.1%
↑2.9pp
Trevor Shonk
—
2,529 5.5%
↑0.7pp

Turnout Trend

65.6%
'10
69.6%
'15
68.8%
'17
65.9%
'19

👥 Demographics

🌍 Ethnicity
White
95.6%
Asian or Asian British
1.8%
Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups
1.6%
Black, African, Caribbean or Black British
0.7%
Other ethnic group
0.3%
📊 Age
45 to 64
27.0%
Under 18
21.6%
65 and over
21.0%
30 to 44
17.2%
18 to 29
13.2%
⛪ Religion
Christian
61.1%
No religion
28.6%
Religion not stated
7.6%
Muslim
0.9%
Other religion
0.6%
Hindu
0.5%
Buddhist
0.4%
Jewish
0.2%
Sikh
0.1%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency
MP Name Party From To
Laura Sandys Conservative 2010-05-06 2015-03-30
Dr Stephen Ladyman Labour 1997-05-01 2010-05-06
Jonathan Aitken Conservative 1974-02-28 1997-05-01