Manchester Rusholme was a

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centred on the

Rusholme Rusholme () is an area of Manchester, England, two miles south of the city centre. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 13,643. Rusholme is bounded by Chorlton-on-Medlock to the north, Victoria Park and Longsight to the east, Fallo ...

district of

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

. It returned one

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(MP) to the

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of the

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, elected by the

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system.

History

The constituency was created by the

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for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

The constituency was created as Manchester, Rusholme Division by the

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, and was defined as consisting of three

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of the

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, namely

Levenshulme Levenshulme () is an area of Manchester, England, bordering Fallowfield, Longsight, Gorton, Burnage, Heaton Chapel and Reddish; it is approximately halfway between Stockport and Manchester city centre on the A6. Levenshulme is predominantly re ...

Longsight Longsight is an inner city suburb of Manchester, England, located south of the city centre. It is bounded by Ardwick and West Gorton to the north; Levenshulme to the south; and Chorlton-on-Medlock, Victoria Park and Fallowfield to the west. ...

and

. The division consisted of areas that had been included with Manchester's municipal boundaries in 1890 and 1909. Since the previous redistribution of seats in 1885, they had formed part of the Stretford Division of

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. The seat was abolished by the

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, with its area being redistributed between Manchester Ardwick (Longsight),

Manchester Gorton Manchester Gorton is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Labour's Afzal Khan, who was elected at the 2017 general election. It is the safest Labour seat in Greater Manchester by numerical majority and ...

(Levenshulme) and

Manchester Withington Manchester Withington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jeff Smith of Labour. Of the 30 seats with the highest percentage of winning majority in 2017, the seat ranks 25th with a 55.7% ma ...

(Rusholme)

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Members of Parliament

Election results

Election in the 1910s

Election in the 1920s

Election in the 1930s

Election in the 1940s

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 Edmund Ashworth Radford (February 1881 – 27 May 1944) was a British Conservative politician. He was the son of George Radford of Manchester and Church Stretton. Following education at Buxton College he became a chartered accountant in 1902. ...

*Labour: Lester Hutchinson *Liberal:

Hilda Buckmaster Dr Hilda Mary Adela Buckmaster BSc. (January 1897 – April 1993), was a British academic and Liberal Party politician. She was notably and unusually a naval officer in both World Wars. Background Hilda Buckmaster was born in Brentford, Middles ...

The Liberal Magazine 1939

References

* * {{Rayment-hc, r, 2, date=March 2012 Parliamentary constituencies in Manchester (historic) Parliamentary constituencies in North West England (historic) Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918 Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950