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    Gwynfor Richard Evans (1 September 1912 – 21 April 2005) was a Welsh politician, lawyer and author. He was President of the Welsh political party Plaid...
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  • Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru (English: The National Party of Wales) and Gwynfor Evans won the first Westminster seat for the party at the 1966 Carmarthen...
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  • Peninsula of North Wales was described. The leader of Plaid Cymru, Gwynfor Evans, won the party's first ever Parliamentary seat in Carmarthen in 1966...
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  • Thatcher, with Mark Lewis Jones as Willie Whitelaw and Rhodri Evan as Gwynfor Evans. The film is set after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of the...
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    as the first constituency to elect a Plaid Cymru MP, Gwynfor Evans, at a 1966 by-election. Evans was later involved in one of the closest General Election...
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    constituency of Carmarthen for the Labour Party against Plaid Cymru leader Gwynfor Evans, about which he wrote a book in the Welsh language. Before entering...
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    Snowdonia National Park. Retrieved 22 March 2023. Gwynfor Evans (2001) Cymru O Hud Abergwyngregyn. Gwynfor Evans (2002) Eternal Wales Abergwyngregyn Novels Sharon...
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    portrayed the politician and Welsh-language campaigner Gwynfor Evans in an S4C docu-drama, titled Gwynfor Evans: Y Penderfyniad? (The Decision?). In 2013, Hughes...
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    there was a sizeable Plaid Cymru-organised demonstration. A year later, Gwynfor Evans won Plaid Cymru's first parliamentary seat in Carmarthen. But according...
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    During a conversation with his friend, the historian and Plaid Cymru MP Gwynfor Evans, Iwan is said to have been given the initial idea for the song, which...
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    +0.9   UUP Harry West 7 6 0 1 −1 0.9 0.9 256,065 +0.1   Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Evans 36 3 1 0 +1 0.5 0.6 166,321 +0.1   SDLP Gerry Fitt 9 1 0 0 0 0.2 0.6...
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    United Nations. The party's first Westminster seat (MP) was won by Gwynfor Evans in 1966. By 1974 the party had won three MP seats. In the 2019 general...
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    collective seat at the UN Security Council Former Plaid Cymru leader Gwynfor Evans, advocated for a "Britannic Confederation" that included Wales, and...
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  • Rhosllannerchrugog near Wrexham in northeast Wales. Two of the founding members were Gwynfor Evans and J. E. Jones, who were respectively president and secretary-general...
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    quite divorced from Britishness because of ethnic English dominance; Gwynfor Evans, a Welsh nationalist politician, said that "Britishness is a political...
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    National Front John Tyndall 303 0 0 0 0 N/A 0.6 191,719 +0.2   Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Evans 36 2 0 1 −1 0.31 0.4 132,544 −0.2   SDLP Gerry Fitt 9 1 0 0 0 0.16 0...
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    number of bomb attacks on infrastructure. At a by-election in 1966, Gwynfor Evans won the parliamentary seat of Carmarthen, Plaid Cymru's first Parliamentary...
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    Rhodri Mabon ap Gwynfor is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician who has been Member of the Senedd (MS) for Dwyfor Meirionnydd since 2021. He has served as Plaid...
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    +0.9   UUP Harry West 7 7 1 2 −1 1.1 0.8 232,103 N/A   Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Evans 36 2 2 0 +2 0.3 0.5 171,374 −0.1   SDLP Gerry Fitt 12 1 1 0 +1 0.2 0...
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  • 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...
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  • Meinir Ffransis (redirect from Meinir Evans)
    seven children of the first Plaid Cymru MP and one-time party leader, Gwynfor Evans, and his wife, Rhiannon Prys Thomas, both of whom died in 2005. Her...
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    formed in Lampeter in Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) by Julian Cayo-Evans in 1963. Its objective was to establish an independent Welsh republic. The...
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    March 1957 – 14 May 1966 Preceded by Rhys Hopkin Morris Succeeded by Gwynfor Evans Member of Parliament for Anglesey In office 30 May 1929 – 5 October...
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    Deborah Fisher, Princesses of Wales (University of Wales Press, 2005) Gwynfor Evans (1974). Land of my fathers: 2000 years of Welsh history. John Penry...
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    640 −0.2   Independent N/A 6 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.1 19,791 N/A   Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Evans 4 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 10,920 −0.1   SNP Robert McIntyre 2 0 0 0 0 0.0 0...
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      SNP William Wolfe 65 1 1 0 +1 0.2 1.1 306,802 +0.6   Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Evans 36 0 0 0 0 0.6 175,016 +0.4   Unity N/A 5 2 2 0 +2 0.3 0.50 140,930...
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    Sinn Féin Paddy McLogan 12 2 2 0 +2 0.3 0.6 152,310 +0.5   Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Evans 11 0 0 0 0 0.2 45,119 +0.2   Independent N/A 8 0 0 0 0 0.2 43,791 +0...
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    1   Sinn Féin Paddy McLogan 2 0 0 0 0 0.1 23,362 N/A   Plaid Cymru Gwynfor Evans 7 0 0 0 0 0.1 17,580 +0.1   Independent Liberal N/A 2 1 0 1 −1 0.2 0...
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    status was irrelevant, it was just symbolic". The leader of Plaid Cymru, Gwynfor Evans won the party's first-ever seat in Westminster in Carmarthen in 1966...
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    United Nations. The party's first Westminster seat (MP) was won by Gwynfor Evans in 1966. By 1974 the party had three MPs and in the 2019 general election...
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