Governance
Ramsgate is in the parliamentary constituency of Thanet South represented by Conservative MP Laura Sandys who won the seat in the 2010 general election.
Before 6 May 2010 the MP was Stephen Ladyman a senior Labour minister, preceded by Jonathan Aitken.
Ramsgate was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1884. This was abolished in 1974, since which date Ramsgate has been within the Thanet local government district. The town contains the seven electoral wards of Central Harbour, Cliffsend and Pegwell, Eastcliff, Nethercourt, Newington, Northwood, and Sir Moses Montefiore. These wards have seventeen of the fifty-six seats on the Thanet District Council; as of 2011 fifteen of those seats were held by Labour and two by the Conservatives
Following a successful campaign by local activist Gerry O'Donnell, a Ramsgate Town Council was established in June 2009. The Town Mayor of Ramsgate is currently Cllr David Green.
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