Cardiff East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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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.
The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Park, Roath, and Splott.
Seager received Coalition Government endorsement letter which was later withdrawn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;
Craig, F. W. S. (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3 ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. .