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General Election
1 May 1997
A general election was held across the United Kingdom on 1 May 1997 to elect 659 members of parliament.
Medway Results
| Party | Seats | Vote | Change | |
| Labour | 3 | 43.7% | +16.9 | |
| Conservative | - | 36.7% | -17.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | - | 14.9% | -3.0 | |
| Referendum party | - | 3.1% | +3.1 | |
| Ukip | - | 1.0% | +1.0 | |
| Official Monster Raving Loony party | - | 0.2% | +0.2 | |
| Natural Law party | - | 0.1% | -0.3 | |
| British National party | - | 0.1% | +0.1 |
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To view the full results for each constituency, please click on the constituency name above.
Medway Vote Change
Medway Swing
UK Vote Change
Composition of the House of Commons
UK vote share and vote change only includes parties which received at least 1% of the national vote share, regardless of how many members of parliament were elected for that party. All other parties' respective vote shares are combined together under the heading "Oth".
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