Manchester Rusholme (UK Parliament constituency)

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Manchester Rusholme Borough constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons
Members:	one

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.

Contents 1 History 2 Boundaries 3 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 5 References

[edit] History

The constituency was created by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

[edit] Boundaries

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1918	Robert Burdon Stoker	Coalition Conservative
	1919	John Henry Thorpe	Coalition Conservative
	1923	Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman	Liberal
	1924	Sir Frank Boyd Merriman	Conservative
	1933	Edmund Ashworth Radford	Conservative
	1944	Frederick William Cundiff	Conservative
	1945	Hugh Lester Hutchinson	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

[edit] Election results

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.