Carmarthen by-election, 1966

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	BBC News Elections Wales 99 Constituencies Carmarthen East & Dinefwr
		In its previous form, as Carmarthen, it was Plaid Cymru’s historic first-ever Westminster election victory, in 1966.
		It was then lost to Labour in 1970, who only retained it by three votes in a controversial election in 1974, before Gwynfor Evans regained it later that year, only to lose it again in 1979.
		The Independents are the next-largest group, on 28, followed by Plaid Cymru with 8, Independent Labour and the Independent Ratepayers on 2 apiece and the Liberal Democrats on 1, with 1 Non-Aligned.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/vote_99/wales_99/html/constituency/12.stm

	BBC NEWS VOTE 2001 RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES Carmarthen West & Pembrokeshire South
		Carmarthen was also the scene of Plaid Cymru's electoral breakthrough when Gwynfor Evans won the 1966 by-election.
		Both the former Carmarthen and Pembroke seats have been represented by prominent political figures.
		South Pembrokeshire is sometimes referred to as “Little England beyond Wales” due to the high level of inward migration and the limited number of Welsh speakers which contrasts with the relative prevalence of Welsh speakers in Carmarthenshire.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/vote2001/results_constituencies/constituencies/129.stm (195 words)

	ipedia.com: Gwynfor Evans Article
		Evans, then leader of the party, won the parliamentary seat of Carmarthen from Labour in a by-election on July 14, 1966, lost it in the general election of 1970, and won it back in ?
		Evans, then leader of the party, won the parliamentary seat of Carmarthen from Labour in a by-election on July 14, 1966, lost...
		Gwynfor Evans (born 1912) was the first Member of Parliament to represent Plaid Cymru.
	www.ipedia.com /gwynfor_evans.html (175 words)

	icNorthWales - The 'greatest Welshman of 20th century'
		GWYNFOR Evans' shock 1966 by-election victory in Carmarthen was Plaid Cymru's first real political breakthrough.
		Historian Lord KO Morgan described his by-election victory in 1966 as the moment "Plaid Cymru became credible, an appealing alternative to an apparently ageing, timorous, and entrenched Labour Party, which showed all the symptoms of too long a monopoly of power."
		Plaid present president Dafydd Iwan said: "During the lean years in the 1950s and '60s, Gwynfor Evans single-handedly guided Plaid Cymru and it is true to say that without Gwynfor Evans at the helm Plaid Cymru may not have survived to see electoral success in later years."
	icnorthwales.icnetwork.co.uk /news/regionalnews/tm_objectid=15431636&method=full&siteid=50142&page=2&headline=the--greatest-welshman-of-20th-century--name_page.html (619 words)

	Gwynfor Evans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 14 July 1966, Evans won the parliamentary seat of Carmarthen from Labour in a by-election caused by the death of Lady Megan Lloyd George, daughter of the former Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George.
		Richard Gwynfor Evans (1 September 1912– April 21, 2005), was a Welsh politician and the first Member of Parliament to represent Plaid Cymru at Westminster (1966-1970; 1974-1979).
		Gwynfor Evans was born to an English-speaking family in Barry, near Cardiff, and did not learn to speak Welsh until adulthood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwynfor_Evans (915 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Obituaries Obituary: Gwynfor Evans
		Gwynfor had fought Westminster elections since 1945, without much hope and no success until the Carmarthen byelection of July 1966, caused by the death of the Labour member, Lady Megan Lloyd George, daughter of the former Liberal prime minister.
		Gwynfor's election as the first Plaid Cymru MP gave his party unaccustomed credibility and an enhanced public profile; it also established a pattern under which, when a Labour government was in office, Plaid provided the most threatening opposition in Wales.
		In his long career, Gwynfor (in a land with a severe shortage of surnames, he was invariably known as Gwynfor) was essentially driven by cultural nationalism, at the heart of which was the Welsh language.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1465990,00.html (1031 words)

	Ymgyrchu! - Ballot Box
		In the Carmarthen by-election of 1966 Gwynfor Evans won the first ever seat for Plaid Cymru.
		The 1985 by-election in Brecon and Radnor produced one of the closest ever results when the Liberal Alliance candidate, Richard Livsey won the seat by only 559 votes.
	www.llgc.org.uk /ymgyrchu/Pleidleisio/index-e.htm (1031 words)

	Articles - Plaid Cymru
		Plaid Cymru has traditionally been strongest in the Welsh-speaking areas of Wales, particularly the north; but it was at Carmarthen in west Wales that the party gained its first MP, Gwynfor Evans (then the party's President) being elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1966.
		The party was founded on 5 August 1925 by members of Byddin Ymreolwyr Cymru, a nationalist party of north Wales and Y Mudiad Cymreig, an underground nationalist movement of south Wales as Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru ("National Party of Wales"), but soon changed to the more familiar name.
		In the General Election of May 5, 2005, Plaid gained no seats and lost the Ceredigion seat to the Liberal Democrats, leaving their total of Parliamentary seats at three instead of four.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Plaid_Cymru?mySession=ec2407db0c427cf3b1fc0d535a772bc8 (1031 words)

	BBC NEWS Wales Gwynfor Evans: Your tributes
		He became Plaid Cymru's first MP in the 1966 Carmarthen by-election and was president of his party for 36 years.
		Belonging to the Welsh nation and being a European and world citizen, was no contradiction for him, but a normal and logical thing.
		It must also be remembered that his commitment to peace ment that when first elected he was one of the few voices in the House of commons to speak out against the war in Vietnam and the labour government supplying arms to Nigeria during the Biafran civil war.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/4469641.stm (1621 words)

	BBC - South East Wales - Hall of Fame - Gwynfor Evans - former leader of Plaid Cymru
		Despite his failure to stop the Tryweryn reservoir opening in 1965, his prominent role in the campaign helped him become the first ever Plaid Cymru MP in 1966 with his shock victory in the Carmarthen by-election.
		In 1945 Dr Evans became president of Plaid Cymru, and led campaigns for a Welsh Government and against plans to flood a village near Bala to create a reservoir for Liverpool's water supply.
		Dr Evans stepped down as Plaid Cymru president in 1981 and turned his attention to writing, including Welsh and English versions of his autobiography.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/halloffame/public_life/gwynfor_evans.shtml (1261 words)

	Plaid Cymru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plaid Cymru has traditionally been strongest in the Welsh-speaking areas of Wales, particularly the north; but it was at Carmarthen in west Wales that the party gained its first MP, Gwynfor Evans (then the party's President) being elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1966.
		Wyn Jones' distancing the party from supporting Welsh independence prompted a split from the party in January 2000 when Cymru Annibynnol was formed.
		Following medical advice, Wigley stood down as leader in 2000, to be succeeded by Ieuan Wyn Jones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plaid_Cymru (1071 words)

	The Ultimate Lady Megan Lloyd George - American History Information Guide and Reference
		In 1957 she stood against the Liberals as the Labour Party candidate in a by-election in Carmarthen and won the seat from them, which she held until her death in 1966.
		In 1949 she was named Deputy Leader of the party in a bid to create unity, but after losing her seat she stood down in 1952 and in 1955 defected to Labour.
		Prominent among the radicals in the Liberal Party, she opposed what she saw as the party's drift away from her father's brand of liberalism.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Megan_Lloyd_George (1071 words)

	Schimanski - Cultural and Political Nationalism in Wales
		And in 1966, the president of the party, Gwynfor Evans, had become the first Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament with his victory in the Carmarthen by- election.
		And in the same year, in response to what was felt as a increasing electoral threat from Plaid Cymru, Wales was given its own minister in Westminster by the government.
		His aim was to preserve rural Welsh language and tradition, and in particular a rural economy, against the threats of large-scale capitalism and socialism.
	www.hum.uit.no /a/schimanski/artikler/cultpol.htm (3473 words)

	BBC - Wales - Wales In Our Time with John Humphrys: 1960s
		But in July 1966 and to everyone's surprise, Gwynfor Evans, President of Plaid Cymru, scored a startling victory in a by-election in Carmarthen, and duly took his seat in Westminster as the first ever Welsh nationalist MP.
		By 1964 the national team had embarked on the astonishing run of victories that would bring a lump to the throats of countless Welshman over the next fifteen years.
		He admitted that the NCB had been at fault by not acting on the clear danger posed by the tip.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/rememberwales/pages/wiot_1960.shtml (2516 words)

	Welsh Referendum
		It won its first seat in the House of Commons in a by-election in Carmarthen in 1966, but lost it four years later.
		Welsh nationalism was additionally weakened by the growing differences between the country's North and West on the one hand and its more populated Southeast on the other, where the industrial revolution had caused drastic social changes.
		However the Welsh Liberals were divided on the issue and when they were displaced by the Labour party in the 1920s, the nationalist movement became largely cultural.
	www.bbc.co.uk /politics97/devolution/wales/briefing/history.shtml (1230 words)

	Plaid Cymru - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Plaid Cymru
		Plaid Cymru has contested parliamentary elections in Wales since 1929, but did not gain representation in Westminster until it won the Carmarthen by-election in 1966.
		Four Plaid Cymru MPs were returned in both the 1997 and 2001 general elections.
		This seat was lost in 1970, but in the two general elections of February and October 1974 Plaid Cymru won two and three seats respectively.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Plaid+Cymru (226 words)

	Articles - Wales
		In 1966 the Carmarthen Parliamentary seat was won by Plaid Cymru at a by-election, their first Parliamentary seat.
		Wales is located in the south-west of Great Britain and is bordered by the English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire to the east, the Bristol Channel to the south, St George's Channel to the southwest, and the Irish Sea to the west and north.
		A terror campaign was waged by Welsh nationalists for a short period by the Free Wales Army and Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (MAC - Welsh Defence Movement).
	www.tiresnwheelshop.com /articles/Wales (3442 words)

	Which famous Welsh politicians share your roots - leaders with vision like Aneurin Bevan, Abraham Lincoln, Moss Evans, Andrew J. Evans Jr. and Thomas Edward Ellis.
		Gwynfor Evans transformed Plaid Cymru from an intellectual pressure group to a successful political party and became the first Welsh Nationalist MP when he dramatically won the Carmarthen by-election in 1966.
		For the Sake of Wales: The Memoirs of Gwynfor Evans
		He was often referred to as 'Gwynfor Dual-Carriageway' due to his extended campaign.
	www.famouswelsh.com /05_politics/politics3.html (3442 words)

	Famous Welsh honour role, notable personalities like Moss Evans, John Haydn Davies, Lis Davies, Handel Evans and Princess Diana to name a few!
		Gwynfor Evans transformed Plaid Cymru from an intellectual pressure group to a successful political party and became the first Welsh Nationalist MP when he dramatically won the Carmarthen by-election in 1966.
		Son of well known Welsh businessman Dan Evans, Gwynfor Evans qualified as a barrister and became President of Plaid Cymru, The Party of Wales.
		He was often referred to as 'Gwynfor Dual-Carriageway' due to his extended campaign.
	www.famouswelsh.com /08_Personalities/honour/honour2.html (307 words)

	www.gwales.com - 1860570216, For the Sake of Wales - The Memoirs of Gwynfor Evans
		Gwynfor Evans has played a pivotal role in that development since the Second World War, emphasising non-violent ballot-box campaigning and becoming Plaid Cymru’s first MP at the Carmarthen by-election of 1966.
		And yet, when Gwynfor Evans became president of the party in 1945, he was so in tune with the movement that he would remain at the helm for almost forty years.
		One of Gwynfor Evans’s fellow students at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the 1930s commented later that he believed that, of his contemporaries, Gwynfor was the person least likely to have become President of Plaid Cymru.
	www.gwales.com /goto/review/en/1860570216 (453 words)

	Plaid Cymru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plaid Cymru has traditionally been strongest in the Welsh-speaking areas of Wales, particularly the north; but it was at Carmarthen in west Wales that the party gained its first MP, Gwynfor Evans (then the party's President) being elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1966.
		Since the 2003 Assembly elections Plaid have reassessed the clairity of their policy on "the national question"; the consensus within the party now expressly favours independence within the European Union as Plaid's constitutional aim for Wales.
		Some leading Plaid figures have called for the party to find a single leader who is the Assembly and whom can be presented to the electorate as a clear potential First Minister of Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plaid_Cymru (1071 words)

	Jim Griffiths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plaid Cymru had captured the neighbouring seat of Carmarthen in 1966 and the popular Llanelli Rugby coach Carwyn James was poised to stand for the Party in a by-election had the ageing Griffiths stood down.
		He was born on 19 September 1890, in the strongly Welsh-speaking village of Betws, near Ammanford in Carmarthenshire.
		We honour the memory of Jim Griffiths of Ammanford.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Griffiths (602 words)

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