Stoker Unionist Thorpe Unionist The 1919 Manchester Rusholme by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in October 1919 for the British House of Commons constituency of Manchester Rusholme.

In September 1919 the Conservative MP Robert Burdon Stoker died.

[5] Dunstan, the Labour candidate, sought to appeal to the centre ground by calling for widespread abolition of economic war-time restrictions.

The relative success of the Labour party in such a constituency encouraged them to field candidates in further Unionist/Liberal marginals rather than seek to reconstruct the Progressive Alliance.

Pringle made a successful return to the House in 1922, winning Penistone for the Liberals.