Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency)
MPs 1918–2017
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Canterbury (UK Parliament constituency)

Section Title: MPs 1918–2017
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Election	Member	Party	Notes

1918	Ronald McNeill	Conservative	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (19 October 1927 – 4 June 1929) Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1925 – 1927)

1927 by-election	Sir William Wayland	Conservative	Mayor of Deptford (1914 – 1920)

1945	John White	Conservative

1953 by-election	Sir Leslie Thomas	Conservative

1966	Sir David Crouch	Conservative

1987	Sir Julian Brazier	Conservative	Minister of State for Reserves (14 July 2014 – 16 July 2016)

2017	Rosie Duffield	Labour

Sentence(s)

Labour's Rosie Duffield won the seat in the 2017 election, marking the end of Canterbury electing Conservative-allied MPs, the longest recorded broken record for party representation in British political history.

final_sentence: Labour's Rosie Duffield won the seat in the 2017 election, marking the end of Canterbury electing Conservative-allied MPs, the longest recorded broken record for party representation in British political history.