Gweru Urban

Gweru Urban
Constituency
for the National Assembly of Zimbabwe
ProvinceMidlands
RegionGweru
Current constituency
Seats1
PartyCitizens Coalition for Change
Member(s)Josiah Makombe

Gweru Urban is a constituency represented in the National Assembly of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, located in Gweru, Midlands Province. Its current MP since the 2023 election is Josiah Makombe of the Citizens Coalition for Change.

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 Rhodesia Party
David Munro Rhodesia Party
1928 Max Danziger Rhodesia Party
1931 Independent
1933 Frank Delano Thompson Reform
1934 United
1939
1946 Robert Williamson Liberal
1948 Desmond Lardner-Burke United
1954 Robert Williamson[1] Independent
1956 Charles Falcon Scott Clark[2][3] Dominion[4]
1958
1962 Desmond Lardner-Burke Rhodesian Front
1965
1970
1974 Roger Hawkins Rhodesian Front
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
2023 Josiah Makombe[5] CCC

See also

References

  1. ^ Holderness, Hardwicke (1985). Lost Chance: Southern Rhodesia, 1945-58. Zimbabwe Publishing House. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-949932-88-4.
  2. ^ Who's who of Rhodesia, Mauritius, Central and East Africa. Wooten & Gibson. 1971. p. 55.
  3. ^ Report of the Secretary for Justice, Internal Affairs and Housing for the Year Ended 31st December, 1955. Government Printer, South Africa. 1954. p. 6.
  4. ^ Woodhouse, Susan (2018). Garfield Todd: The End of the Liberal Dream in Rhodesia. African Books Collective. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-77922-324-1.
  5. ^ "MPs and Senators declared elected after 30 July 2018_harmonised elections". veritaszim.net. Retrieved 19 April 2020.