Thanet West

Thanet West
Thanet West
Former borough constituency; for the House of Commons
	Thanet West in Kent, showing boundaries used from 1974–1983
County	Kent
Major settlements	Margate
February 1974–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Isle of Thanet
Replaced by	Thanet North and Thanet South

Thanet West was a British parliamentary constituency in the Isle of Thanet, in Kent.

Major settlementsMargate

SeatsOne

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It was created for the February 1974 general election, when the former constituency of Isle of Thanet was split in two, and returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was abolished for the 1983 general election, when Thanet West and the neighbouring Thanet East constituency were replaced by new North Thanet and South Thanet constituencies.

Election		Member	Party
	Feb 1974	William Rees-Davies	Conservative
	1983	constituency abolished

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Rees-Davies	18,122	55.39	+10.1
	Labour	J. F. Little	8,576	26.21	−2.3
	Liberal	D. Payne	6,017	18.39	−7.7
Majority			9,546	29.18	+12.4
Turnout			32,715	71.60	+2.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Rees-Davies	13,763	45.34	−4.2
	Labour	C. J. Smith	8,655	28.51	+5.1
	Liberal	I. G. Tiltman	7,935	26.14	−1.0
Majority			5,108	16.83	−5.7
Turnout			30,353	69.14	−9.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Rees-Davies	16,880	49.55
	Liberal	I. G. Tiltman	9,220	27.06
	Labour	D. Ramage	7,969	23.39
Majority			7,660	22.49
Turnout			34,069	78.09
	Conservative win (new seat)

Boundaries

Thanet West
Former borough constituency for the House of Commons
Thanet West in Kent, showing boundaries used from 1974–1983
County	Kent
Major settlements	Margate
February 1974–1983
Seats	One
Created from	Isle of Thanet
Replaced by	Thanet North and Thanet South^[1]