Gweru Urban
Gweru Urban is a constituency of the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. It contains the city of Gweru in Midlands Province. Its current MP since 2018 is Brian Dube of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance.[1]
| Gweru Urban | |
|---|---|
| Constituency for the National Assembly of Zimbabwe | |
| Region | Gweru |
| Current constituency | |
| Party | MDC Alliance |
| Member(s) | Brian Dube |
Members
A constituency called Gwelo (the town's colonial name until 1982) was represented in the Parliament of Rhodesia from 1914 until 1979.
Note: In the 1990 and 1995 elections, the constituency was called Gweru Central.
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gwelo | |||
| 1914 | Herman Heyman | ||
| 1920 | William James Boggie | RGA | |
| 1924 | Max Danziger | RP | |
| David Munro | RP | ||
| 1928 | Max Danziger | RP | |
| 1931 | Independent | ||
| 1933 | Frank Delano Thompson | Reform | |
| 1934 | UP | ||
| 1939 | |||
| 1946 | Robert Williamson | Liberal | |
| 1948 | Desmond Lardner-Burke | UP | |
| 1954 | Robert Williamson[2] | Independent | |
| 1956 | Charles Falcon Scott Clark[3][4] | DP[5] | |
| 1958 | |||
| 1962 | Desmond Lardner-Burke | RF | |
| 1965 | |||
| 1970 | |||
| 1974 | Roger Hawkins | RF | |
| 1977 | |||
| Gweru Urban | |||
| 1985 | Simon Muzenda | ZANU–PF | |
| 1990 | |||
| 1995 | Richard Hove | ZANU–PF | |
| 2000 | Timothy Mukahlera | MDC | |
| 2005 | |||
| 2008 | Rodrick Rutsvara | MDC–T | |
| 2013 | Sesel Zvidzai | MDC–T | |
| 2018 | Brian Dube | MDC Alliance | |
References
- "MPs and Senators declared elected after 30 July 2018_harmonised elections". veritaszim.net. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
- Holderness, Hardwicke (1985). Lost Chance: Southern Rhodesia, 1945-58. Zimbabwe Publishing House. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-949932-88-4.
- Who's who of Rhodesia, Mauritius, Central and East Africa. Wooten & Gibson. 1971. p. 55.
- Report of the Secretary for Justice, Internal Affairs and Housing for the Year Ended 31st December, 1955. Government Printer, South Africa. 1954. p. 6.
- Woodhouse, Susan (2018). Garfield Todd: The End of the Liberal Dream in Rhodesia. African Books Collective. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-77922-324-1.
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