Cardiff East (1918–1950 UK Parliament constituency)

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

Cardiff East included the County Borough of Cardiff wards of Park, Roath, and Splott.

The ward was abolished in 1950, with Roath and Splott becoming part of the new Cardiff South East ward and the remainder joining Cardiff North.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1918	Sir William Seager	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1922	Lewis Lougher	Unionist
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1923	Sir Henry Webb	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1924	Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke	Unionist
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1929	James Edmunds	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1931	Owen Temple-Morris	Conservative
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1942 by-election	Sir James Grigg	National
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" |	1945	Hilary Marquand	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

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Seager

General election 1918: Cardiff East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Seager	Template:Replace	40.8
		Colum Crichton-Stuart	5,978	30.7
		Arthur Williams	5,554	28.5
Majority			1,985	10.1
Turnout			19,495	64.6
Registered electors			30,164
	win (new seat)

Seager received Coalition Government endorsement letter which was later withdrawn

Elections in the 1920s

General election 1922: Cardiff East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Lewis Lougher	Template:Replace	36.8
		Henry Webb	7,622	31.8
		Arthur Williams	7,506	31.4
Majority			1,182	5.0
Turnout			23,932	81.0
Registered electors			29,532
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+7.6

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Webb

General election 1923: Cardiff East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Henry Webb	Template:Replace	35.8
		Hugh Dalton	7,812	32.7
		Lewis Lougher	7,513	31.5
Majority			724	3.1
Turnout			23,861	79.3
Registered electors			30,100
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+1.4

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Maclean

General election 1924: Cardiff East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Clement Kinloch-Cooke	Template:Replace	40.3
		Harold Lloyd	8,156	32.8
		Donald Maclean	6,684	26.9
Majority			1,880	7.5
Turnout			24,876	82.3
Registered electors			30,218
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+4.4

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Emlyn-Jones

General election 1929: Cardiff East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		James Edmunds	Template:Replace	39.0
		John Emlyn-Jones	10,500	31.9
		Clement Kinloch-Cooke	9,563	29.1
Majority			2,313	7.1
Turnout			32,876	82.1
Registered electors			40,061
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing	+0.6

Elections in the 1930s

General election 1931: Cardiff East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Owen Temple-Morris	Template:Replace	38.6
		James Edmunds	10,292	31.8
		John Emlyn-Jones	9,559	29.6
Majority			2,173	6.8
Turnout			32,316	80.2
Registered electors			40,316
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing

General election 1935: Cardiff East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Owen Temple-Morris	Template:Replace	53.4
		William Bennett	11,362	37.8
		Aubrey Willis Pile	2,623	8.7
Majority			4,686	15.6
Turnout			30,033	73.1
Registered electors			41,076
	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

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Grigg

1942 Cardiff East by-election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		James Grigg	Template:Replace	75.2
		Fenner Brockway	3,311	24.8
Majority			6,719	50.4
Turnout			13,341	33.1
Registered electors			40,254
	hold		Swing

General election 1945: Cardiff East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Hilary Marquand	Template:Replace	50.7
		James Grigg	11,306	35.2
		John Emlyn-Jones	4,523	14.1
Majority			4,993	15.5
Turnout			32,128	74.9
Registered electors			42,950
	gain from Template:Yesno		Swing

The Western Mail described Sir James Grigg's defeat as "the most grievous" in the Cardiff area, considering Grigg had served as War Minister in the National government and "had proved an exceptionally valuable representative of Welsh interests in the highest quarter."

References

Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. Template:ISBN.

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