Ladies and Gentlemen of Medway and Aylesford...

Today you have a new Conservative Member of Parliament!

Here are the full results for all three constituencies:

Chatham and Aylesford

Name	Party	Votes	%	+/-
Tracey Crouch	Conservative	20,230	46.2	+9.4
Jonathan Shaw	Labour	14,161	32.3	-12.7
John McClintock	Liberal Democrat	5,832	13.3	-0.2
Colin McCarthy-Stewart	British National Party	1,365	3.1	+3.1
Steve Newton	UK Independence Party	1,314	3.0	+0.0
Sean Varnham	English Democrats	400	0.9	-0.8
Dave Arthur	Green	396	0.9	+0.9
Maureen Smith	Christian Party	109	0.2	+0.2
Majority		6,069	13.9
Turnout		43,807	61.6	+1.0

Gillingham and Rainham

Name	Party	Votes	%	+/-
Rehman Chishti	Conservative	21,624	46.2	+5.5
Paul Clark	Labour	12,944	27.7	-13.1
Andrew Stamp	Liberal Democrat	8,484	18.1	+2.8
Robert Oakley	UK Independence Party	1,515	3.2	+0.6
Brian Ravenscroft	British National Party	1,149	2.5	+2.5
Dean Lacey	English Democrats	464	1.0	+1.0
Trish Marchant	Green	356	0.8	+0.8
Gordon Bryan	Independent	141	0.3	+0.3
George Meegan	Medway Independent Party	109	0.2	+0.2
Majority		8,680	18.6
Turnout		46,786	66.0	+2.0

Rochester and Strood

Name	Party	Votes	%	+/-
Mark Reckless	Conservative	23,604	49.2	+6.6
Teresa Murray	Labour	13,651	28.5	-13.1
Geoffrey Juby	Liberal Democrat	7,800	16.3	+3.9
Ron Sands	English Democrats	2,182	4.5	+4.5
Simon Marchant	Green	734	1.5	+1.5
Majority		9,953	20.7
Turnout		47,971	64.9	+2.5

Note the sizes of those majorities, especially in the most difficult (for the Conservatives) of the three constituencies, Chatham and Aylesford!

Very big congratulations to Tracey, Rehman and Mark!

UPDATE: I notice that Musings from Medway has the above tables "lifted" from here, with the sole change of colouring the Labour candidates red (following my lead of colouring the winning Conservative candidates' names blue). Where I and my fellows lead, others merely follow...