Plaid Cymru is a centre-left to left-wing,Welsh nationalist political party in Wales,committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
Adam Robert Price is a Welsh politician who served as Leader of Plaid Cymru from September 2018 to May 2023. He has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 2016,having previously been a Member of Parliament (MP) for the same Westminster constituency from 2001 to 2010.
Simon George Thomas is a Welsh former politician who was a member of Plaid Cymru. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ceredigion from 2000 to 2005,and an Assembly Member in the National Assembly for Wales representing the Mid and West Wales list between 2011 and 2018.
Gwynfor Richard Evans was a Welsh politician,lawyer and author. He was President of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru for thirty-six years and was the first member of Parliament to represent it at Westminster,which he did twice,from 1966 to 1970,and again from 1974 to 1979.
Welsh nationalism emphasises and celebrates the distinctiveness of Welsh culture and Wales as a nation or country. Welsh nationalism may also include calls for further autonomy or self-determination,which includes Welsh devolution,meaning increased powers for the Senedd,or full Welsh independence.
Ceredigion was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Created in 1536,the franchise expanded in the late 19th century and on the enfranchisement of women. Its boundaries remained virtually unchanged until 1983. From 1536 until 1885 the area had two seats:a county constituency (Cardiganshire) comprising the rural areas,the other the borough constituency known as the Cardigan District of Boroughs comprising a few separate towns;in 1885 the latter was abolished,its towns and electors incorporated into the former,reduced to one MP. The towns which comprised the Boroughs varied slightly over this long period,but primarily consisted of Cardigan,Aberystwyth,Lampeter and Adpar,the latter now a suburb of Newcastle Emlyn across the Teifi,in Carmarthenshire.
Politics in Wales forms a distinctive polity in the wider politics of the United Kingdom,with Wales as one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom (UK).
The 1966 Carmarthen by-election,was held in Carmarthen,Wales,on 14 July 1966. The contest was significant in that it resulted in the election of Gwynfor Evans,the first ever Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament. Plaid Cymru's victory in the Carmarthen constituency,a seminal moment for Welsh nationalism,was part of a wider process toward Welsh devolution which eventually led to the establishment of the Welsh Assembly in 1999.
Welsh Labour,formerly known as the Labour Party in Wales,is an autonomous section of the United Kingdom Labour Party in Wales and the largest party in modern Welsh politics. Welsh Labour and its forebears have won a plurality of the Welsh vote at every UK general election since 1922,every Assembly and Senedd election since 1999,and all elections to the European Parliament in the period 1979–2004 and in 2014. Welsh Labour holds 22 of the 40 Welsh seats in the UK Parliament,30 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Senedd and 576 of the 1,264 councillors in principal local authorities including overall control of 10 of the 22 principal local authorities.
Welsh independence is the political movement advocating for Wales to become a sovereign state,independent from the United Kingdom.
Glyndwr Cennydd Jones is a chief executive officer,education professional,writer on constitutional matters,and former political candidate.
The 2011 National Assembly for Wales election was an election for the National Assembly. The poll was held on 5 May 2011 and decided the incumbency for all the Assembly's seats. It was the fourth election for seats in the National Assembly for Wales,and the second election taken under the rules of the Government of Wales Act 2006.
One Wales was the coalition agreement for the National Assembly for Wales between Labour and Plaid Cymru agreed to by Rhodri Morgan,First Minister of Wales and leader of Welsh Labour,and Ieuan Wyn Jones,leader of Plaid Cymru,on 27 June 2007. It was negotiated in the wake of the preceding National Assembly election which resulted in a large Labour plurality,but no majority. Labour and Plaid Cymru approved the document in separate votes on 6 and 7 July,respectively.
Plaid Cymru originated in 1925 after a meeting held at that year's National Eisteddfod in Pwllheli,Caernarfonshire. Representatives from two Welsh nationalist groups founded the previous year,Byddin Ymreolwyr Cymru and Y Mudiad Cymreig,agreed to meet and discuss the need for a "Welsh party". The party was founded as Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru,the National Party of Wales,and attracted members from the left,right and centre of the political spectrum,including both monarchists and republicans. Its principal aims include the promotion of the Welsh language and the political independence of the Welsh nation.
The 1943 University of Wales by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom between 25 and 29 January 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of University of Wales.
David Jonathan Edwards is a Welsh politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from 2010 to 2024. Initially elected as a Plaid Cymru MP,he is the longest serving MP in the Carmarthen,having served for 14 years. He sat as an Independent MP after the party's disciplinary panel suspended him in 2020. His membership of Plaid was restored in July 2022,and the whip was returned the following month although following further revelations he stated that he would not rejoin the Plaid group of MPs at Westminster.
The 2007 National Assembly for Wales election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the National Assembly for Wales. It was the third general election. On the same day local elections in England and Scotland,as well as the Scottish Parliament election took place. This election was preceded by the previous Assembly election in 2003.
The 2016 National Assembly for Wales election was held on Thursday 5 May 2016,to elect members (AMs) of the National Assembly for Wales,now known as the Senedd. It was the fifth election for the National Assembly,the third election taken under the rules of the Government of Wales Act 2006 and the first since the Wales Act 2014.
Ben Morgan Lake is a Plaid Cymru politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ceredigion since 2017.
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on 12 December 2019 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons,including the 40 Welsh seats.
