title: Margate Marine & Pier
text: # Margate Marine & Pier
  
  Margate Marine & Pier was a ward of Margate Municipal District prior to 1973. When the Municipal District was included in the Thanet Borough in 1974, Marine & Pier ward elected 2 councillors to the new Borough at the elections of 1973 and 1976.
  
  1973 Election
  
  Margate Marine & Pier ward :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Conservative | C Hoser | 892 | 62.4% | |
  | | Conservative | D Masters | 861 | 60.3% | |
  | | Conservative | M Rowland | 817 | 57.2% | |
  | | Labour | Mrs M Sankey | 537 | 37.8% | |
  | | Labour | Mrs S Rowland | 528 | 36.9% | |
  | | Labour | M Finegold | 480 | 33.6% | |
  | Majority | Majority | Majority | 355,324,280 | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,144 | 56.3% | 3,810 |
  
  1976 Election
  
  Margate Marine & Pier ward :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Conservative | C Hoser | 863 | 43.2% | |
  | | Conservative | D Masters | 816 | 40.8% | |
  | | Conservative | M Rowland | 773 | 38.7% | |
  | | Independent | P Mortlock (Ratepayers) | 552 | 27.6% | |
  | | Independent | D Greig (Ratepayers) | 539 | 27.0% | |
  | | Labour | C Harvey | 487 | 24.9% | |
  | | Independent | Mrs B Leadbeater (Ratepayers) | 471 | 23.6% | |
  | Majority | Majority | Majority | 311,264,221 | | |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,998 | 51.0% | 3,917 |
  
  The election of 1979 was fought on revised boundaries and Margate Marine & Pier ward had been split between Marine and Pier wards, each electing one councillors.
  
  