Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)

Cardiff East
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 Henry Seager	Liberal
	1922	Lewis Lougher	Conservative
	1923	Sir Henry Webb	Liberal
	1924	Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke	Unionist
	1929	James Ewart Edmunds	Labour
	1931	Owen Temple-Morris	Conservative
	1942 by-election	Sir P.J. Grigg	National
	1945	Hilary Marquand	Labour
1950		constituency abolished

Election results

Elections in the 1910s

Sir William Henry Seager

General Election 1918 Electorate 30,164
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir William Henry Seager	7,963	40.8	n/a
	Unionist	Lord Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart	5,978	30.7	n/a
	Labour	Arthur James Williams	5,554	28.5	n/a
Majority			1,985	10.2	n/a
Turnout			19,495	64.6	n/a
	Liberal win

Seager was sent a letter of endorsement from the Leaders of the Coalition Government, however endorsement was later withdrawn.

Elections in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Cardiff East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Lewis Lougher	8,804	36.8	+6.1
	Liberal	Sir Henry Webb	7,622	31.8	-9.0
	Labour	Arthur James Williams	7,506	31.4	+2.9
Majority			1,182	5.0	15.2
Turnout				81.0	+16.4
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing	+7.6

Harry Webb

General Election 1923: Cardiff East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Henry Webb	8,536	35.8	+4.0
	Labour	Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton	7,812	32.7	+1.3
	Unionist	Lewis Lougher	7,513	31.5	-5.3
Majority			724	3.1	8.1
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing	+4.1

Sir Donald Maclean

General Election 1924
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke	10,036	40.2
	Labour	Harold Lloyd	8,156	32.8
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Sir Donald Charles Hugh Maclean	6,684	26.9
Majority			1,880	7.5
Turnout				82.3
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

John Emlyn-Jones

General Election 1929
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Ewart Edmunds	12,813	39.0
	Liberal	John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones	10,500	31.9
	Unionist	Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke	9,563	29.1
Majority			2,313	7.1
Turnout				82.1
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931 Electorate 40,316
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Temple-Morris	12,465	38.6
	Labour	James Ewart Edmunds	10,292	31.8
	Liberal	John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones	9,559	29.6
Majority			2,173	6.7
Turnout			32,316	80.2
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

General Election 1935 Electorate 41,076
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Owen Temple-Morris	16,048	53.4
	Labour	William Bennett	11,362	37.8
	Liberal	Cllr A W Pile	2,623	8.7
Majority			4,686
Turnout				73.1
	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.

Sir P. J. Grigg

Cardiff East by-election, 1942
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Sir Percy James Grigg	10,030	75.2
	Ind. Labour Party	Fenner Brockway	3,311	24.8
Majority			6,719	50.4
Turnout				33.1	+0.0
	National hold		Swing

General Election 1945 Electorate 42,867
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hilary Adair Marquand	16,299	50.7
	National	Rt Hon. Sir Percy James Grigg	11,306	35.2
	Liberal	John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones	4,523	14.1
Majority
Turnout
	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.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2)