Plaid Cymru first put a candidate up for election in Wales in the 1929 general election. That one candidate polled 609 votes out of a total of 1,316,912 votes cast in Wales. By the 1979 general election, the support for Plaid Cymru had grown to 8.1% of the votes cast, resulting in Plaid Cymru winning two constituencies in Wales.

 

 

1929: 0.0% of the votes cast

 

 

1931: 0.1% of the votes cast

 

 

1935: 0.3% of the votes cast

 

 

1945: 1.1% of the votes cast

 

 

1950: 1.2% of the votes cast

 

 

1951: 0.7% of the votes cast

 

 

1955:  3.1% of the votes cast

 

 

1959: 5.2% of the votes cast

 

 

1964: 4.8% of the votes cast

 

 

1966: 4.3% of the votes cast

 

 

1970: 11.5% of the votes cast

 

 

1974 (Feb): 10.7% of the votes cast

 

 

1974 (Oct): 10.8% of the votes cast

 

 

1979: 8.1% of the votes cast

 

British Elections 1832 to 1979

Related Posts

  • Labour Party votes 1900 to 1979
    The Independent Labour Party gained votes in the 1895 election. But the newly named Labour Party first stood in 1900 and as the years progressed…
  • Liberal Party votes 1900 to 1979
    The number of people who voted for the Liberal Party declined greatly between 1900 to 1979 so that by 1979, the Liberal Party played a…
  • The Scottish National Party
    The Scottish National Party first put a candidate up for election in the 1929 general election. The Scottish National Party won its first MP to…