Cardiff (UK Parliament constituency)

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Cardiff
Borough constituency
Created: 1542
Abolished: 1918
Type: House of Commons
Members: one

Cardiff was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Cardiff in South Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1918 general election.

It was then replaced by three new constituencies: Cardiff Central, Cardiff East and Cardiff West.

Contents

[edit] Boundaries


[edit] Members of Parliament

[edit] MPs 1660-1832

Year Member Party
1660 Bussy Mansel
1661 Sir Richard Lloyd
1661 William Bassett
1661 Robert Thomas
1681 Bussy Mansel
1685 Francis Gwyn
1689 Thomas Mansel
1698 Sir Edward Stradling
1701 Thomas Mansel
1706 Sir John Aubrey
1710 Sir Edward Stradling
1722 Edward Stradling
1727 Bussy Mansel
1734 Herbert Windsor
1739 Herbert Mackworth
1766 Herbert Mackworth
1790 Lord Mount Stuart Tory
1794 Lord Evelyn Stuart
1802 Lord William Stuart
1814 Lord Evelyn Stuart
1818 Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart
1820 Wyndham Lewis
1826 Lord Patrick Crichton-Stuart
1832 Franchise extended under Reform Act 1832

[edit] MPs 1832-1918

Election Member Party
1832 John Iltyd Nicholl Conservative
1852 Walter Coffin Liberal
1857 James Crichton-Stuart Liberal
1880 Sir Edward James Reed Liberal
1895 James Mackenzie Maclean Unionist
1900 Sir Edward James Reed Liberal
1906 Ivor Guest Liberal
1910 David Alfred Thomas Liberal
1910 Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart Unionist
1915 Herbert Cory Conservative
1918 constituency abolished: see Cardiff Central, Cardiff East and Cardiff West

[edit] Election results


[edit] References