Gweru Urban

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.

Gweru Urban
Constituency for the National Assembly of Zimbabwe
Province	Midlands
Region	Gweru
Current constituency
Seats	1
Party	Citizens Coalition for Change
Member	Josiah Makombe

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

• List of Zimbabwean parliamentary constituencies