| Cardiff East | |
| Type: | Borough |
| Parliament: | uk |
| Year: | 1918 |
| Abolished: | 1950 |
| Elects Howmany: | one |
| Next: | Cardiff North and Cardiff South East |
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.
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.
| 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 | |||
Seager received Coalition Government endorsement letter which was later withdrawn
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;
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."[1]
Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. .