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 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 Labour1950 constituency abolished
Election results Elections in the 1910s
Seager received Coalition Government endorsement letter which was later withdrawn
Elections in the 1920s
Elections in the 1930s
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
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. .