Cardiff East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
1918–1950 | |
Seats | one |
Created from | Cardiff |
Replaced by | Cardiff North and Cardiff South East |
2024–present | |
Created from | Cardiff Central and Cardiff South and Penarth |
Cardiff East (Welsh : Dwyrain Caerdydd) is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament, to be contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, following the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies.
It previously existed from the 1918 general election until the 1950 general election.
Originally The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Park, Roath, and Splott.
The proposed recreation will comprise the City of Cardiff electoral divisions of Adamsdown, Cyncoed, Pentwyn, Penylan, Plasnewydd, Llanrumney, Rumney, and Trowbridge. [1] [2]
Election | Member | Party | |
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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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | William Seager | 7,963 | 40.8 | N/A | |
Unionist | Colum Crichton-Stuart | 5,978 | 30.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Arthur Williams | 5,554 | 28.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,985 | 10.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 19,495 | 64.6 | N/A | ||
Registered electors | 30,164 | ||||
Liberal win (new seat) |
Seager received Coalition Government endorsement letter which was later withdrawn
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 | |||
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 | ||
Registered electors | 40,316 | ||||
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 | ||
Registered electors | 41,076 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
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;
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National | James Grigg | 10,030 | 75.2 | N/A | |
Ind. Labour Party | Fenner Brockway | 3,311 | 24.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,719 | 50.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 13,341 | 33.1 | -40.0 | ||
Registered electors | 40,254 | ||||
National gain from Conservative | 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 | ||
Registered electors | 42,950 | ||||
Labour gain from National | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Rodney Berman [5] | ||||
Reform UK | Lee Canning [6] | ||||
Green | Sam Coates [7] | ||||
Plaid Cymru | Cadewyn Skelley [8] | ||||
Labour | Jo Stevens | ||||
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