Rochester and Strood is a constituency[n 1] in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Lauren Edwards from the Labour Party.

[2] It was previously represented from 2015 by Kelly Tolhurst, a Conservative, who served as Government Deputy Chief Whip and Treasurer of the Household.

Tolhurst secured a majority of over 7,000 votes, meaning the Rochester area once again had an MP on the government benches.

Tolhurst retained her seat at the 2017 and 2019 elections with comfortable majorities, but was defeated by Labour's Lauren Edwards in 2024, maintaining the trend for the area's MP to be a member of the governing party.

[7] Following a local government boundary review which came into effect in May 2023,[8][9] the constituency now comprises the following wards of the Borough of Medway from the 2024 general election: