Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)
Cardiff East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Cardiff North and Cardiff South East |
Created from | Cardiff |
Cardiff East was a parliamentary constituency in Cardiff which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until it was abolished for the 1950 general election.
Boundaries[]
The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Park, Roath, and Splott.
Members of Parliament[]
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
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[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Seager | 7,963 | 40.8 | ||
Unionist | Colum Crichton-Stuart | 5,978 | 30.7 | ||
Labour | Arthur Williams | 5,554 | 28.5 | ||
Majority | 1,985 | 10.1 | |||
Turnout | 19,495 | 64.6 | |||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Seager received Coalition Government endorsement letter which was later withdrawn
Elections in the 1920s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Lewis Lougher | 8,804 | 36.8 | +6.1 | |
Liberal | Henry Webb | 7,622 | 31.8 | −9.0 | |
Labour | Arthur Williams | 7,506 | 31.4 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 1,182 | 5.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 23,932 | 81.0 | +16.4 | ||
Registered electors | 29,532 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +7.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Henry Webb | 8,536 | 35.8 | +4.0 | |
Labour | Hugh Dalton | 7,812 | 32.7 | +1.3 | |
Unionist | Lewis Lougher | 7,513 | 31.5 | −5.3 | |
Majority | 724 | 3.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 23,861 | 79.3 | −1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 30,100 | ||||
Liberal gain from Unionist | Swing | +1.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unionist | Clement Kinloch-Cooke | 10,036 | 40.3 | +8.8 | |
Labour | Harold Lloyd | 8,156 | 32.8 | +0.1 | |
Liberal | Donald Maclean | 6,684 | 26.9 | −8.9 | |
Majority | 1,880 | 7.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 24,876 | 82.3 | +3.0 | ||
Registered electors | 30,218 | ||||
Unionist gain from Liberal | Swing | +4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | James Edmunds | 12,813 | 39.0 | +6.2 | |
Liberal | John Emlyn-Jones | 10,500 | 31.9 | +5.0 | |
Unionist | Clement Kinloch-Cooke | 9,563 | 29.1 | −11.2 | |
Majority | 2,313 | 7.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,876 | 82.1 | −0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 40,061 | ||||
Labour gain from Unionist | Swing | +0.6 |
Elections in the 1930s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Owen Temple-Morris | 12,465 | 38.6 | +8.5 | |
Labour | James Edmunds | 10,292 | 31.8 | -7.2 | |
Liberal | John Emlyn-Jones | 9,559 | 29.6 | -2.3 | |
Majority | 2,173 | 6.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,316 | 80.2 | -7.9 | ||
Conservative gain from Labour | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Owen Temple-Morris | 16,048 | 53.4 | +14.8 | |
Labour | William Bennett | 11,362 | 37.8 | +6.0 | |
Liberal | Aubrey Willis Pile | 2,623 | 8.7 | -20.9 | |
Majority | 4,686 | 15.6 | +8.8 | ||
Turnout | 30,033 | 73.1 | -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;
- Conservative: Owen Temple-Morris
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National | James Grigg | 10,030 | 75.2 | New | |
Ind. Labour Party | Fenner Brockway | 3,311 | 24.8 | New | |
Majority | 6,719 | 50.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 13,341 | 33.1 | -40.0 | ||
National hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Hilary Marquand | 16,299 | 50.7 | +12.9 | |
National | James Grigg | 11,306 | 35.2 | N/A | |
Liberal | John Emlyn-Jones | 4,523 | 14.1 | +5.4 | |
Majority | 4,993 | 15.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 32,128 | 74.9 | +1.8 | ||
Labour gain from National | Swing |
References[]
Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Politics of Cardiff
- History of Glamorgan
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in South Wales
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1918
- Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom disestablished in 1950