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Plaid Cymru had long advocated controls on second homes, and a 2001 taskforce headed by Dafydd Wigley recommended land should be allocated for affordable local housing, and called for grants for locals to buy houses, and recommended council tax on holiday homes should double, following similar measures in the Scottish Highlands. [79] [82] [85]
Plaid Cymru (English: / p l aɪ d ˈ k ʌ m r i / PLYDE KUM-ree; [31] Welsh: [plaid ˈkəmri], lit. ' Party of Wales '; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left to left-wing, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom.
This article lists Plaid Cymru's election results in UK parliamentary, European parliamentary, and Senedd elections. Summary of electoral performance
The results for Plaid Cymru were disappointing and their one success in Carmarthen Rural No. 7 (the Whitland area) was partly caused by the non-Plaid vote being split between two Independent candidates.
Joint Green-Plaid candidates stood in seven seats at the 1992 General Election, Blaenau Gwent, Ceredigion and Pembroke North, Islwyn, Monmouth, Newport West, Newport East and Torfaen. [5] In Ceredigion and Pembroke North, Cynog Dafis of Plaid Cymru was elected as a joint Plaid-Green MP, with a 14.1% increase on his vote at the previous election.
Plaid leader Rhun ap Iorwerth cited concerns over First Minister Vaughan Gething’s election campaign finances and his decision to sack a minister.
The fourth Rhodri Morgan government (19 July 2007 – 10 December 2009) was a Labour–Plaid Cymru coalition government of Wales led by First Minister for Wales, Rhodri Morgan. After the collapse of talks for a rainbow coalition between Plaid Cymru , the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats , the Labour Party started talks with Plaid ...
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth has accused the Welsh First Minister of "gaslighting" his party over the potential for agreeing a budget deal. On Tuesday in the Senedd First Minister Eluned ...