Cardiff East

Current MP

Jo Stevens

Labour

Secretary of State for Wales

11 years as MPCabinet

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Election history

Most-signed petitions in Cardiff East

Petitions ranked by how many people in this constituency signed them.

• Do not introduce Digital ID cards3,935 local · 2,984,191 total
• Call a General Election2,959 local · 3,084,713 total
• Call an immediate general election1,142 local · 1,059,229 total
• Repeal the Online Safety Act1,036 local · 550,136 total
• Keep 5-Year ILR and Restrict Access to Benefits for New ILR Holders729 local · 244,450 total
• Introduce offshore detention/mass deportation for illegal migrants723 local · 720,772 total
• Stop financial and other support for asylum seekers494 local · 427,447 total
• Urgently fulfil humanitarian obligations to Gaza486 local · 198,966 total
• Keep the 5-Year ILR pathway for existing Skilled Worker visa holders432 local · 188,125 total
• Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold390 local · 189,887 total
• Ban immediately the use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures382 local · 257,938 total
• Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.380 local · 128,749 total
• Raise the income tax personal allowance from £12,570 to £20,000 366 local · 281,794 total
• Tighten the rules on political donations355 local · 144,783 total
• Urge Israeli Government to stop law allowing execution of Palestinian prisoners351 local · 114,026 total
• Formal support framework for families of murdered British citizens overseas335 local · 22,092 total
• Protect Legal Migrants: do not implement the 10-Year ILR proposal301 local · 106,570 total
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership296 local · 239,407 total
• Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy274 local · 115,853 total
• Introduce Statutory Menstrual Leave for People with Endometriosis & Adenomyosis274 local · 109,025 total

About Cardiff East

Cardiff East is one of 650 UK parliamentary constituencies that each elect a single Member of Parliament to the House of Commons under the first-past-the-post system. It sits in Wales and has a registered electorate of 72,876 voters. Boundary reviews run on a regular cycle via the Boundary Commission — the current map was redrawn for the 2024 general election.