Career
Runge held the seat until 1935, when it was regained by Smith. Runge currently holds the record of the longest-lived female Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
Runge held the seat until 1935, when it was regained by Smith. Runge currently holds the record of the longest-lived female Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
36th United Kingdom Parliament]
Runge was elected Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe in the 1931 Conservative landslide, gaining the seat from Labour incumbent Benjamin Smith. She was subsequently created an alderman on London County Council in 1937, remaining a member of the council until 1961.