List of Plaid Cymru MPs

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	19 years, 245 days	7,185
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	5 years, 276 days	2,103
Simon Thomas	Ceredigion	3 February 2000	5 May 2005	5 years 3 moths 2 days	1,917
Ben Lake	Ceredigion	9 June 2017	present	3 years, 244 days	1,340

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

• 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