Medway was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1983 and 2010.

It comprised a rural area consisting of the petty sessional divisions of Bearstead, Rochester and part of Malling PSD, but did not include the Medway Towns which were comprised in the parliamentary boroughs of Chatham and Rochester.

The constituency was revived in 1983 by Parliament's acceptance of a Boundary Commission national review,[5] and was defined as comprising thirteen wards of the then City of Rochester upon Medway: All Saints, Cuxton and Halling, Earl, Frindsbury, Frindsbury Extra, Hoo St. Werburgh, Rede Court, St. Margarets and Borstal, Temple Farm, Thames Side, Town, Troy Town and Warren Wood.

Following the boundary review of parliamentary representation in Kent between 2000 and 2008, the Boundary Commission for England renamed the Medway seat to Rochester and Strood, in order to avoid confusion with the larger unitary authority of Medway.

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