Faversham was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Faversham in Kent which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
It was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1997 general election when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Sittingbourne and Sheppey & Faversham and Mid Kent.
| Election | Member[1] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1885 | Herbert Knatchbull-Hugessen | Conservative | |
| 1895 | Frederic Barnes | ||
| 1900 | John Howard | ||
| 1906 | Thomas Napier | ||
| Jan 1910 | Sir Granville Wheler, Bt. | Conservative | |
| 1928 by-election | Sir Adam Maitland | Conservative | |
| 1945 | Percy Wells | Labour | |
| 1964 by-election | Terry Boston | Labour | |
| 1970 | Sir Roger Moate | Conservative | |
| 1997 | constituency abolished | ||
| General election 1970: Faversham[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Moate | 29,914 | 53.4 | ||
| Labour | Terence Boston | 26,103 | 46.6 | ||
| Majority | 3,811 | 6.8 | |||
| Turnout | 56,013 | 78.09 | |||
| General election February 1974[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Moate | 26,316 | 42.24 | ||
| Labour | M Freedman | 20,909 | 33.56 | ||
| Liberal | P Morgan | 14,927 | 23.96 | ||
| Community | E Dignan | 151 | 0.24 | ||
| Majority | 5,407 | 8.68 | |||
| Turnout | 62,301 | 8.68 | |||
| General election, October 1974: Faversham[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Moate | 25,087 | 43.05 | ||
| Labour | M Freedman | 22,210 | 38.11 | ||
| Liberal | PJ Morgan | 10,979 | 18.84 | ||
| Majority | 2,877 | 4.94 | |||
| Turnout | 58,276 | 76.68 | |||
| General election, 1979: Faversham[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Moate | 33,513 | 54.36 | ||
| Labour | T Sherwen | 21,351 | 34.63 | ||
| Liberal | A Aldous | 6,349 | 10.3 | ||
| National Front | A Webb | 439 | 0.71 | ||
| Majority | 12,162 | 19.73 | |||
| Turnout | 61,653 | 78.53 | |||
| General election, 1983: Faversham[6] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Moate | 29,849 | 53.08 | ||
| SDP–Liberal Alliance | M Goyder | 15,252 | 27.12 | ||
| Labour | CM Bromley | 11,130 | 19.79 | ||
| Majority | 14,597 | 25.96 | |||
| Turnout | 56,233 | 73.54 | |||
| General election, 1987: Faversham[7] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Moate | 31,074 | 51.12 | ||
| SDP–Liberal Alliance | EM Goyder | 17,096 | 28.12 | ||
| Labour | P Dangerfield | 12,616 | 20.75 | ||
| Majority | 13,978 | 23 | |||
| Turnout | 60,788 | 76.91 | |||
| General election, 1992: Faversham[8] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Roger Moate | 32,755 | 50.12 | ||
| Labour | HR Brinton | 16,404 | 25.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | R Truelove | 15,896 | 24.32 | ||
| Natural Law | R Bradshaw | 294 | 0.45 | ||
| Majority | 16,351 | 25.02 | |||
| Turnout | 65,352 | 79.72 | |||