Isle Of Thanet (UK Parliament Constituency)
Isle of Thanet was a county constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885, until it was abolished for the February 1974 general election.
It was located on the Isle of Thanet, in Kent.
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