Manchester Rusholme | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Manchester Rusholme in North West England | |
Electorate | 70,692 (2023) [1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | TBC (TBC) |
Seats | one |
Created from | Manchester Central & Manchester Gorton |
1918–1950 | |
Created from | Manchester South and Stretford |
Replaced by | Manchester Ardwick, Manchester Gorton and Manchester Withington |
Manchester Rusholme is 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 was re-established for the 2024 general election. [2]
The re-established seat comprises the City of Manchester wards of Ardwick, Fallowfield, Hulme, Moss Side, Rusholme and Whalley Range, [3] 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. [4]
The division consisted of areas that had been included with Manchester's municipal boundaries in 1890 and 1909. [5] 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. [6]
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, replaced with | ||
2024 | constituency re-established | ||
Afzal Khan | Labour |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Afzal Khan [9] | 15,054 | 51.9 | −26.7 | |
Green | Thirza Asanga-Rae [10] | 6,819 | 23.5 | +19.2 | |
Workers Party | Mohhamed Bilal [11] | 3,660 | 12.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Alexandra Gabriela Marsanu | 1,678 | 5.8 | −3.3 | |
Reform UK | Joel Patrick McGuigan | 1,313 | 4.5 | +0.5 | |
Independent | Faraz Bhatti | 342 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Communist League | Peter Clifford | 167 | 0.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,235 | 28.4 | −40.1 | ||
Turnout | 29,033 | 40.0 | −16.8 | ||
Registered electors | 72,604 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() | |||
Manchester Rusholme is one of only two constituencies in England or Wales (the other being Chorley, by convention to not stand against the Speaker) where the Liberal Democrats did not stand a candidate. This was due to the nomination paper being rejected after the close of nominations. [12]
2019 notional result [13] | |||
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Party | Vote | % | |
Labour | 31,554 | 78.6 | |
Conservative | 3,653 | 9.1 | |
Green | 1,709 | 4.3 | |
Brexit Party | 1,621 | 4.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1,612 | 4.0 | |
Turnout | 40,149 | 56.8 | |
Electorate | 70,692 |
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) |
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