Cardiff South East (UK Parliament constituency)
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Cardiff South East | |
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Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons |
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1950–1983 | |
Number of members | one |
Replaced by | Cardiff South and Penarth |
Created from | Cardiff Central, Cardiff East and Cardiff South |
Cardiff South East was a parliamentary constituency in Cardiff, Wales. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The constituency was created for the 1950 general election, and abolished for the 1983 general election. Its only MP was Labour's James Callaghan, who served as prime minister from 1976 to 1979, while serving as the seat's MP. Its present-day equivalent is Cardiff South and Penarth.
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Boundaries
1950-1974: The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Adamsdown, Roath, South, and Splott, and the Urban District of Penarth.
1974-1983: The County Borough of Cardiff wards of Adamsdown, Grangetown, Roath, Rumney, South, and Splott.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1950 | James Callaghan | Labour |
Election results
1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rt Hon. Leonard James Callaghan | 23,871 | 59.3 | ||
Conservative | Ivor Samuel Jones | 15,170 | 37.7 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Eric Randolf Roberts | 628 | 1.6 | ||
Severnside Libertarian | Raymond William Aldridge | 375 | 0.9 | ||
Socialist Unity | Pat Arrowsmith | 132 | 0.3 | ||
Communist | Richard Horatio Spencer | 112 | 0.3 | ||
Majority | 8,701 | 21.6 | |||
Turnout | 40,288 | 21.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | − |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rt Hon. Leonard James Callaghan | 21,074 | 52.04 | ||
Conservative | Stefan Terlezki | 10,356 | 25.57 | ||
Liberal | C Bailey | 8,006 | 19.77 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Keith Bush | 983 | 2.43 | ||
Marxist-Leninist (England) | B.C.D. Harris | 75 | 0.19 | ||
Majority | 10,718 | 26.47 | |||
Turnout | 40,494 | 70.67 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rt Hon. Leonard James Callaghan | 20,641 | 48.95 | ||
Conservative | Stefan Terlezki | 13,495 | 32.00 | ||
Independent Liberal | C Bailey | 3,800 | 9.01 | ||
Liberal | B Christon | 2,978 | 7.06 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Keith Bush | 1,254 | 2.97 | ||
Majority | 7,146 | 16.95 | |||
Turnout | 42,168 | 74.26 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | − |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rt Hon. Leonard James Callaghan | 26,226 | 51.87 | ||
Conservative | Norman Lloyd-Edwards | 20,771 | 41.08 | ||
Plaid Cymru | Richard Davies | 2,585 | 5.11 | ||
National Front | George W Parsons | 982 | 1.94 | N/A | |
Majority | 5,455 | 10.79 | |||
Turnout | 50,562 | 73.15 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | − |
1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rt Hon. Leonard James Callaghan | 29,313 | 56.79 | ||
Conservative | Norman Lloyd-Edwards | 18,476 | 35.79 | ||
Liberal | George W Parsons | 3,829 | 7.42 | ||
Majority | 10,837 | 20.99 | |||
Turnout | 78.93 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard James Callaghan | 30,129 | 57.48 | ||
Conservative | Edward Ralph Dexter | 22,288 | 42.52 | ||
Majority | 7,841 | 14.96 | |||
Turnout | 79.87 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard James Callaghan | 26,915 | 50.82 | ||
Conservative | Michael Hilary Arthur Roberts | 26,047 | 49.18 | ||
Majority | 868 | 1.64 | |||
Turnout | 82.02 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard James Callaghan | 25,722 | 53.36 | ||
Conservative | Michael Hilary Arthur Roberts | 22,482 | 46.64 | ||
Majority | 3,240 | 6.72 | |||
Turnout | 79.33 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard James Callaghan | 28,112 | 54.35 | ||
Conservative | H West | 23,613 | 45.65 | ||
Majority | 4,499 | 8.70 | |||
Turnout | 84.93 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard James Callaghan | 26,254 | 51.79 | ||
Conservative | JJ Hayward | 20,359 | |||
Liberal | Patrick Arthur Thomas Furnell | 4,080 | 8.05 | ||
Majority | 5,895 | 11.63 | |||
Turnout | 83.34 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1964–1967 |
Succeeded by Birmingham Stechford |
Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Prime Minister 1976–1979 |
Succeeded by Finchley |
Preceded by | Constituency represented by the Leader of the Opposition 1979–1980 |
Succeeded by Ebbw Vale |
Categories:
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Politics of Cardiff
- History of Glamorgan
- Historic parliamentary constituencies in South Wales
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1950
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1983
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies represented by a sitting Prime Minister