Manchester Rusholme (UK Parliament constituency)
Manchester Rusholme | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
Electorate | 70,692 (2023)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Afzal Khan (Labour) |
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 returns 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. Since 2024, it has been represented by Labour's Afzal Khan, who was MP for Manchester Gorton from 2017 to 2024.
History
[edit]The constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election. Under the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was re-established for the 2024 general election.[2]
Boundaries
[edit]1918-1950
[edit]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]
Current
[edit]The re-established seat comprises the City of Manchester wards of Ardwick, Fallowfield, Hulme, Moss Side, Rusholme and Whalley Range,[6] transferred in approximately equal parts from Manchester Central and the abolished constituency of Manchester Gorton (remaining parts included in the new constituency of Gorton and Denton).
Members of Parliament
[edit]Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
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 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 2020s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | 23.0 |
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]
Elections in the 2010s
[edit]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 |
Elections in the 1940s
[edit]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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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:
- Conservative: Edmund Ashworth Radford
- Labour: Lester Hutchinson
- Liberal: Hilda Buckmaster[14]
Elections in the 1930s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Elections in the 1920s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
Elections in the 1910s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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) |
References
[edit]- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume two: Constituency names, designations and composition – North West". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 4 July 2024.
- ^ "The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries in England – Volume one: Report – North West | Boundary Commission for England". boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
- ^ Ninth Schedule, Part I: Parliamentary Boroughs, 1918 c.64 sch.9
- ^ F A Youngs Jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.II: Northern England, London, 1991
- ^ First Schedule: Parliamentary Constituencies, 1948 c.65 sch.1
- ^ "The Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023". Schedule 1 Part 5 North West region.
- ^ "Statement of person nominated and notice of poll - Manchester Rusholme". Manchester City Council. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
- ^ "Manchester Rusholme - General election results 2024". BBC News.
- ^ Afzal Khan [@Afzal4Gorton] (7 March 2022). "I'm delighted to have been unanimously re-selected by all eligible constituency branches, affiliated trade unions and affiliated organisations to stand as the Labour candidate for Manchester Gorton at the next General Election 🌹 Thank you!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Our Candidates". Retrieved 2 June 2024.
- ^ "General election 2024". Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ Timan, Joseph (9 June 2024). "This part of Manchester is the only place in Britain with no Lib Dem candidate". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
- ^ "Notional results for a UK general election on 12 December 2019". Rallings & Thrasher, Professor David Denver (Scotland), Nicholas Whyte (NI) for Sky News, PA, BBC News and ITV News. UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ The Liberal Magazine 1939
- ^ British parliamentary election results, 1918-1949 by FWS Craig
External links
[edit]- Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "R" (part 2)
- Manchester Rusholme UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK