Manchester Rusholme | |
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Former
Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918– 1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Manchester South and Stretford |
Replaced by | Manchester Ardwick, Manchester Gorton and Manchester Withington |
Manchester Rusholme was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rusholme district of Manchester. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat will be re-established for the next general election. [1]
The re-established seat will comprise the City of Manchester wards of Ardwick, Fallowfield, Hulme, Moss Side, Rusholme and Whalley Range, [2] transferred in approximately equal parts from Manchester Central and Manchester Gorton (to be abolished, with remaining parts included in the new constituency of Gorton and Denton).
The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.
The constituency was created as Manchester, Rusholme Division by the Representation of the People Act 1918, and was defined as consisting of three wards of the county borough of Manchester, namely Levenshulme, Longsight and Rusholme. [3]
The division consisted of areas that had been included with Manchester's municipal boundaries in 1890 and 1909. [4] Since the previous redistribution of seats in 1885, they had formed part of the Stretford Division of Lancashire.
The seat was abolished by the Representation of the People Act 1948, with its area being redistributed between Manchester Ardwick (Longsight), Manchester Gorton (Levenshulme) and Manchester Withington (Rusholme) borough constituencies. [5]
Election | Member | Party | |
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1918 | Robert Burdon Stoker | Coalition Conservative | |
1919 | John Henry Thorpe | Coalition Conservative | |
1923 | Charles Masterman | Liberal | |
1924 | Sir Boyd Merriman | Conservative | |
1933 | Edmund Ashworth Radford | Conservative | |
1944 | Frederick Cundiff | Conservative | |
1945 | Lester Hutchinson | Labour | |
1949 | Labour Independent Group | ||
1950 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Seb Bate [6] | ||||
Labour | Afzal Khan [7] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Lester Hutchinson | 15,408 | 43.4 | +14.0 | |
Conservative | Frederick Cundiff | 15,398 | 43.4 | -19.2 | |
Liberal | Charles Gordon Chappell | 4,673 | 13.2 | New | |
Majority | 10 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,486 | 74.7 | +4.9 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Frederick Cundiff | 8,430 | 53.3 | -9.3 | |
Common Wealth | Harold William Blomerley | 6,670 | 42.1 | New | |
Independent Labour | C.J. Taylor | 734 | 4.6 | New | |
Majority | 1,760 | 11.2 | -22.0 | ||
Turnout | 15,834 | 34.7 | -35.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
General Election 1940: Another election was due to take place by 1940 but did not take place due to the outbreak of war. The following candidates had already been selected to fight this election:
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edmund Ashworth Radford | 19,678 | 62.6 | -6.7 | |
Labour | Albert Knight | 9,258 | 29.4 | +11.8 | |
Independent Liberal | Percy McDougall | 2,525 | 8.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,420 | 33.2 | -18.5 | ||
Turnout | 31,461 | 69.8 | -10.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Edmund Ashworth Radford | 13,904 | 50.8 | -18.5 | |
Labour | George Woods | 11,005 | 40.1 | +22.5 | |
Independent Liberal | Percy McDougall | 2,503 | 9.1 | -3.9 | |
Majority | 2,899 | 10.7 | -41.0 | ||
Turnout | 27,412 | 60.8 | -19.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Boyd Merriman | 24,817 | 69.3 | +26.5 | |
Labour | Jerrold Adshead | 6,319 | 17.6 | -6.7 | |
Liberal | Frank Thornborough | 4,658 | 13.0 | -19.9 | |
Majority | 18,498 | 51.7 | +41.8 | ||
Turnout | 35,794 | 80.0 | +1.3 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Boyd Merriman | 14,230 | 42.8 | −7.6 | |
Liberal | Philip Guedalla | 10,958 | 32.9 | +3.5 | |
Labour | Jerrold Adshead | 8,080 | 24.3 | New | |
Majority | 3,272 | 9.9 | −11.1 | ||
Turnout | 33,268 | 78.7 | −1.1 | ||
Registered electors | 42,289 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −5.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | Boyd Merriman | 13,341 | 50.4 | +15.1 | |
Liberal | Charles Masterman | 7,772 | 29.4 | −14.0 | |
Communist | William Paul | 5,328 | 20.2 | New | |
Majority | 5,569 | 21.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 26,441 | 79.8 | +1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 33,147 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +14.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Charles Masterman | 10,901 | 43.4 | +17.3 | |
Unionist | John Henry Thorpe | 8,876 | 35.3 | −12.6 | |
Labour | William Paul | 5,366 | 21.3 | −4.7 | |
Majority | 2,025 | 8.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 25,143 | 78.0 | +0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 32,253 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +15.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Unionist | John Henry Thorpe | 11,765 | 47.9 | −17.2 | |
Liberal | Ernest Frederick Martin Sutton | 6,421 | 26.1 | +6.8 | |
Labour | Albert E. Wood | 6,397 | 26.0 | +10.4 | |
Majority | 5,344 | 21.8 | −24.0 | ||
Turnout | 25,583 | 77.8 | +14.9 | ||
Registered electors | 31,582 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | −12.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | John Henry Thorpe | 9,394 | 45.7 | −19.4 |
Labour | Robert Dunstan | 6,412 | 31.2 | +15.6 | |
Liberal | William Pringle | 3,923 | 19.1 | −0.2 | |
National | Roger Bowan Crewdson | 815 | 4.0 | New | |
Majority | 2,982 | 14.5 | −31.3 | ||
Turnout | 20,544 | 67.5 | +4.6 | ||
Registered electors | 30,421 | ||||
Unionist hold | Swing | +17.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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C | Unionist | Robert Burdon Stoker | 12,447 | 65.1 | |
Liberal | Walter Butterworth | 3,699 | 19.3 | ||
Labour | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | 2,985 | 15.6 | ||
Majority | 8,748 | 45.8 | |||
Turnout | 19,131 | 62.9 | |||
Registered electors | 30,421 | ||||
Unionist win (new seat) |