List of Plaid Cymru MPs

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This is a list of Plaid Cymru MPs. It includes all Members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing Plaid Cymru. Members of the Welsh Assembly or the European Parliament are not listed.

Name Constituency Served from Served to Term length Days
Dafydd Wigley Caernarfon 28 February 1974 7 June 2001 27 years 3 months 10 days 9,961
Elfyn Llwyd Meirionnydd Nant Conwy then Dwyfor Meirionnydd 9 April 1992 30 March 2015 22 years 11 moths 21 days 8,390
Hywel Williams Caernarfon then Arfon 8 June 2001 present 20 years, 238 days 7,543
Dafydd Elis-Thomas Meirionnydd then Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 28 February 1974 9 April 1992 18 years 1 month 12 days 6,615
Ieuan Wyn Jones Ynys Môn 11 June 1987 7 June 2001 13 years 11 months 27 days 5,110
Jonathan Edwards Carmarthen East and Dinefwr 6 May 2010 22 May 2020[n 1] 10 years 16 days 3,669
Adam Price Carmarthen East and Dinefwr 8 June 2001 12 April 2010 8 years 10 months 3 days 3,229
Gwynfor Evans Carmarthen 14 July 1966 18 June 1970 8 years 5 months 27 days 3,101
10 October 1974 3 May 1979
Cynog Dafis Ceredigion and Pembroke North then Ceredigion 9 April 1992 8 January 2000 7 years 9 months 1 day 2,832
Liz Saville Roberts Dwyfor Meirionnydd 8 May 2015 present 6 years, 269 days 2,461
Simon Thomas Ceredigion 3 February 2000 5 May 2005 5 years 3 moths 2 days 1,917
Ben Lake Ceredigion 9 June 2017 present 4 years, 237 days 1,698

Dates are taken from a House of Commons Library Briefing.[1] Following a rule change that came into force at the 2005 general election MPs who were defeated (i.e. Simon Thomas) are shown as serving up to and including the day of the election at which they were defeated. MPs who voluntarily stood down (i.e. Elfyn Llwyd) are shown as serving up until the day of dissolution of their final Parliament.

Tabular representation[]

Constituency 1966 1970 Feb 74 Oct 74 1979 1987 1992 1997 2000 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019 2020
Carmarthen / Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (1997) Evans Evans Price Edwards
Caernarfon / Arfon (2010-) Wigley Williams
Merionethshire (1974–83) /
Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (1983-2010) / Dwyfor Meirionnydd (2010) 		Elis Thomas Llwyd Saville-Roberts
Ynys Môn Wyn Jones
Ceredigion & Pembroke North (1983) / Ceredigion (1997) Dafis Thomas Lake
No. of Plaid Cymru MPs 1 0 2 3 2 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 4 4 3

See also[]

List of Plaid Cymru MSs

References[]

  • [1]
  • Staff reporter (2015). "Dwyfor Meirionnydd". BBC News. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
Specific
  1. ^ http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05324/SN05324.pdf
  1. ^ Whip suspended
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