At the time Faversham was regarded as the best organised constituency in the country, with 5,000 individual party members and eight Labour halls.
But Dartford, maintaining its unofficial title as Britain's best bellwether constituency, resoundingly voted in favour of the Conservatives to keep up its unbroken run since 1964.
Then there will be squalid day-to-day horse trading with Scottish Nationalists, Plaid Cymru, assorted Irish Unionists and, possibly, footloose independents with no policy apart from the vague promise to do their best for the constituency that elected them.
Proponents of a regulation are often well-financed, while the public interest may have at best a diffuse constituency which has minimal impact on the results.
After all, if you love the leader and you believe in the mission, you should trust the team to decide how to best serve their constituencies rather than having a donor thrust their own beliefs upon them.
The CEbP identifies potential clinical advisors among clinicians suggested by the participating organizations, which recommend clinical experts who best represent their constituencies and who also have significant recent experience in direct patient care.
Many Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters decided to back whichever of those two parties was best placed in their constituency.
Jamie Reed, the MP for Copeland, a district in Cumbria, gripes that the best graduates from his constituency rarely move back after finishing university.
In a statement on Wednesday Pitt said he would act in the best interests of his constituency, the seat of Hinkler centred on Bundaberg.
Pyne told Guardian Australia that he did not want to "lose sleep because I have voted for legislation that I don't believe is in the best interests of my constituency".
