Ashford is a constituency[n 1] in Kent created in 1885 and represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Sojan Joseph of the Labour Party.

The seat previously included the town of Tenterden but, due to population growth in Ashford itself, the 2023 boundary review proposed that Tenterden be removed from the Ashford constituency and included in the new constituency of Weald of Kent.

Cranbrook Rural District was transferred to the new Royal Tunbridge Wells constituency.

[7] In June 2016, an estimated 60% of local adults voting in the EU membership referendum chose to leave the European Union instead of to remain.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;