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Cardiff East
Former Borough constituency
for the House of Commons
1918 (1918)–1950 (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.

1 Boundaries
2 Members of Parliament
3 Election results
4 The 1940s
5 References

Boundaries [edit]

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Members of Parliament [edit]

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 [edit]

Elections in the 1910s [edit]

General Election 1918 Electorate 30,164
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir William Henry Seager	7,963
	Unionist	Lord Colum Edmund Crichton-Stuart	5,978
	Labour	Arthur James Williams	5,554
Majority
Turnout
	Liberal hold		Swing

Seager was sent a letter of endorsement from the Leaders of the Coalition Government, however endorsement was later withdrawn.

Elections in the 1920s [edit]

General Election 1922 Electorate 30,164
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Lewis Lougher	8,804
	Liberal	Sir Henry Webb	7,622
	Labour	Arthur James Williams	7,506
Majority
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1923 Electorate 30,164
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sir Henry Webb	8,536
	Labour	Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton	7,812
	Unionist	Lewis Lougher	7,513
Majority			724
Turnout
	Liberal gain from Unionist		Swing

General Election 1924 Electorate 30,218
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Unionist	Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke	10,036
	Labour	Harold Lloyd	8,156
	Liberal	Rt Hon. Sir Donald Charles Hugh Maclean	6,684
Majority			1,880
Turnout
	Unionist gain from Liberal		Swing

General Election 1929 Electorate 40,061
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Ewart Edmunds	12,813
	Liberal	John Emlyn Emlyn-Jones	10,500
	Unionist	Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke	9,563
Majority			2,313
Turnout
	Labour gain from Unionist		Swing

Elections in the 1930s [edit]

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

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; Conservative: Owen Temple-Morris.

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 [edit]

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)^{[self-published source]}^{[better source needed]}

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