Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cardiff East
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
CardiffEast2024Constituency.svg
Map of the proposed 2024 revived constituency in Wales
19181950
Seatsone
Created from Cardiff
Replaced by Cardiff North and Cardiff South East
2024–present
Created from Cardiff Central and Cardiff South and Penarth

Cardiff East is a proposed parliamentary constituency in Cardiff to return one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from the next general election. It previously existed from the 1918 and 1950 general election.

Contents

The constituency is to be re-established, as part of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the next United Kingdom general election. [1]

Boundaries

Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)
Map of boundaries from 2024

Originally The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Park, Roath, and Splott.

Proposed recreation formed of the City of Cardiff electoral divisions of Adamstown, Cyncoed, Pentwyn, Penylan, Plasnewydd, Llanrumney, Rumney, and Trowbridge. [2]

Members of Parliament

ElectionMemberParty
1918 Sir William Seager Liberal
1922 Lewis Lougher Unionist
1923 Sir Henry Webb Liberal
1924 Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke Unionist
1929 James Edmunds Labour
1931 Owen Temple-Morris Conservative
1942 by-election Sir James Grigg National
1945 Hilary Marquand Labour
1950 constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

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Seager
General election 1918: Cardiff East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal William Seager 7,963 40.8
Unionist Colum Crichton-Stuart 5,97830.7
Labour Arthur Williams 5,55428.5
Majority1,98510.1
Turnout 19,49564.6
Liberal win (new seat)

Seager received Coalition Government endorsement letter which was later withdrawn

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Cardiff East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Lewis Lougher 8,804 36.8 +6.1
Liberal Henry Webb 7,62231.89.0
Labour Arthur Williams 7,50631.4+2.9
Majority1,1825.0N/A
Turnout 23,93281.0+16.4
Registered electors 29,532
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +7.6
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Webb
General election 1923: Cardiff East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Henry Webb 8,536 35.8 +4.0
Labour Hugh Dalton 7,81232.7+1.3
Unionist Lewis Lougher 7,51331.55.3
Majority7243.1N/A
Turnout 23,86179.31.7
Registered electors 30,100
Liberal gain from Unionist Swing +1.4
Maclean Sir Donald Maclean.jpg
Maclean
General election 1924: Cardiff East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Unionist Clement Kinloch-Cooke 10,036 40.3 +8.8
Labour Harold Lloyd8,15632.8+0.1
Liberal Donald Maclean 6,68426.98.9
Majority1,8807.5N/A
Turnout 24,87682.3+3.0
Registered electors 30,218
Unionist gain from Liberal Swing +4.4
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Emlyn-Jones
General election 1929: Cardiff East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Edmunds 12,813 39.0 +6.2
Liberal John Emlyn-Jones 10,50031.9+5.0
Unionist Clement Kinloch-Cooke 9,56329.111.2
Majority2,3137.1N/A
Turnout 32,87682.10.2
Registered electors 40,061
Labour gain from Unionist Swing +0.6

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Cardiff East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Owen Temple-Morris 12,465 38.6 +8.5
Labour James Edmunds 10,29231.8-7.2
Liberal John Emlyn-Jones 9,55929.6-2.3
Majority2,1736.8N/A
Turnout 32,31680.2-7.9
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
General election 1935: Cardiff East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Owen Temple-Morris 16,048 53.4 +14.8
Labour William Bennett 11,36237.8+6.0
Liberal Aubrey Willis Pile2,6238.7-20.9
Majority4,68615.6+8.8
Turnout 30,03373.1-8.1
Conservative hold Swing

Elections in the 1940s

General Election 1939–40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

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Grigg
1942 Cardiff East by-election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National James Grigg 10,030 75.2 N/A
Ind. Labour Party Fenner Brockway 3,31124.8New
Majority6,71950.4N/A
Turnout 13,34133.1-40.0
National gain from Conservative Swing
General election 1945: Cardiff East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Hilary Marquand 16,299 50.7 +12.9
National James Grigg 11,30635.2N/A
Liberal John Emlyn-Jones 4,52314.1+5.4
Majority4,99315.5N/A
Turnout 32,12874.9+1.8
Labour gain from National Swing

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