Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cardiff East
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
Map of the proposed 2024 revived constituency in Wales
1918–1950
Seatsone
Created fromCardiff
Replaced byCardiff North and Cardiff South East
2024–present
Created fromCardiff 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.

Boundaries[edit]

Map
Map of boundaries from 2024

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]

Members of Parliament[edit]

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[edit]

Elections in the 1910s[edit]

Seager
General election 1918: Cardiff East[3]
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Seager received Coalition Government endorsement letter which was later withdrawn

Elections in the 1920s[edit]

General election 1922: Cardiff East[3]
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
Webb
General election 1923: Cardiff East[3]
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
Maclean
General election 1924: Cardiff East[3]
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
Emlyn-Jones
General election 1929: Cardiff East[3]
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[edit]

General election 1931: Cardiff East[3]
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
General election 1935: Cardiff East[3]
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

Elections in the 1940s[edit]

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;

Grigg
1942 Cardiff East by-election[3]
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
General election 1945: Cardiff East[3]
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


Elections in the 2020s[edit]

General Election 2024: Cardiff East[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Rodney Berman[5]
Reform UK Lee Canning[6]
Green Sam Coates[7]
Plaid Cymru Cadewyn Skelley[8]
Labour Jo Stevens

References[edit]

  1. ^ 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituencies - The 2023 Review of Parliamentary Constituencies in Wales (PDF). Boundary Commission for Wales. 28 June 2023.
  2. ^ "2023 Parliamentary Review - Final Recommendations". 2023 Parliamentary Review - Final Recommendations. Boundary Commission for Wales. 28 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Craig, F. W. S. (1969). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (1 ed.). Glasgow: Political Reference Publications. ISBN 0-900178-019. Page 535
  4. ^ "UK Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (Wales)". Who Can I Vote For?. 23 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Rodney Berman announced as Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Cardiff Central". 25 November 2022.
  6. ^ "Cardiff East Constituency". Reform UK. 23 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Our candidates for the next general election". Cardiff Green Party. 8 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  8. ^ "X CadewynElS".
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