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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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14 December 1918		19,131/30,421	62.89
Robert Burdon Stoker	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	12,447	65.06
Walter Butterworth	Liberal Party	3,699	19.34
Emmeline P Pethick-Lawrence	Labour Party	2,985	15.60
Majority		8,748	45.73

4 September 1919 Death of Robert Stoker.

7 October 1919		20,544/30,421	67.53
John Henry Thorpe	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	9,394	45.73
Dr Robert Dunstan	Labour Party	6,412	31.21
William Mather Rutherford Pringle	Liberal Party	3,923	19.10
Roger Bowan Crewdson	National Party	815	3.97
Majority		2,982	14.52

15 November 1922		24,583/31,582	77.84
John Henry Thorpe	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,765	47.86
Ernest Frederick Martin Sutton	Liberal Party	6,421	26.12
Albert Ernest Wood	Labour Party	6,397	26.02
Majority		5,344	21.74

6 December 1923		25,143/32,253	77.96
Rt Hon Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman	Liberal Party	10,901	43.36
John Henry Thorpe	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,876	35.30
William Paul	Labour Party	5,366	21.34
Majority		2,025	8.05

William Paul was a member of the Communist Party but received endorsement from the Labour Party.

29 October 1924		26,441/33,147	79.77
Frank Boyd Merriman	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,341	50.46
Rt Hon Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman	Liberal Party	7,772	29.39
William Paul	Communist Party	5,328	20.15
Majority		5,569	21.06

30 May 1929		33,268/42,289	78.67
Sir Frank Boyd Merriman	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,230	42.77
Philip Guedalla	Liberal Party	10,958	32.94
Jerrold Adshead	Labour Party	8,080	24.29
Majority		3,272	9.84

27 October 1931		35,794/44,743	80.00
Sir Frank Boyd Merriman	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,817	69.33
Jerrold Adshead	Labour Party	6,319	17.65
Frank Crane Thornborough	Liberal Party	4,658	13.01
Majority		18,498	51.68

30 September 1933 Resignation of Sir Frank Merriman on appointment as President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court.

21 November 1933		27,412/45,112	60.76
Edmund Ashworth Radford	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,904	50.72
Rev George Saville Woods	Labour and Co-operative Party	11,005	40.15
Dr Percy McDougall	Independent Liberal	2,503	9.13
Majority		2,899	10.58

Dr Percy McDougall was supported by the Manchester Land Values League.

14 November 1935		31,461/45,068	69.81
Edmund Ashworth Radford	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,678	62.55
Albert Knight	Labour Party	9,258	29.43
Dr Percy McDougall	Independent Liberal	2,525	8.03
Majority		10,420	33.12

Dr Percy McDougall was supported by the Manchester Land Values League.

27 May 1944 Death of Edmund Radford.

8 July 1944		15,834/45,675	34.67
Frederick William Cundiff	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,430	53.24
Harold William Blomerley	Common Wealth Movement	6,670	42.12
C J Taylor	Independent Liberal	734	4.64
Majority		1,760	11.12

5 July 1945		35,479/47,562	74.60
Hugh Lester Hutchinson	Labour Party	15,408	43.43
Frederick William Cundiff	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,398	43.40
Charles Gordon Chappell	Liberal Party	4,673	13.17
Majority		10	0.03

June 1949 Hugh Hutchinson joins the Labour Independent Group.

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4 July 2024		29,033/72,604	39.99
Mohammed Afzal Khan	Labour Party	15,054	51.85
Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae	Green Party	6,819	23.49
Mohhamed Bilal Samed	Workers Britain	3,660	12.61
Alexandra Gabriela Marsanu	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,678	5.78
Joel Patrick McGuigan	Reform UK	1,313	4.52
Faraz Bhatti	Independent	342	1.18
Peter Clifford	Communist League	167	0.58
Majority		8,235	28.36