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Nationally, the years around the opening of the club were
not good for the Liberals. They lost both the 1895 and 1900
general elections and would not be returned to office till 1906.

Locally, they fared better, both on the old Withington
District Council and after our incorporation into the city, on the
Manchester City Council and, by the 1920s, were so evenly
balanced with the Conservatives that the Manchester Guardian
reported in 1928 that in Chorlton, “there are few wards in

which Conservative
and Liberal opinion
is so nicely
balanced. Of the
eight elections that
have been fought in
Chorlton since 1920
four have been won
by the Conservatives
and four by the
Liberals".****

However, by the
early 1930s, the

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