The party is a member of the European Free Alliance and has close links with Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and the Breton Democratic Union.

The party has close links with Plaid Cymru ( their partner in the EFA ) including a twinning arrangement with Plaid's Blaenau Gwent branch, and to a lesser extent with the SNP.

* Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, has had continuous representation in Parliament since 1974.

* The phrase ' red-green alliance ' has also been used to describe the One Wales coalition in the Welsh Assembly following the 2007 elections between the Welsh Labour Party and Plaid Cymru.

It has a long standing alliance with the European Free Alliance ( EFA ), an alliance of " stateless nations ", such as the Welsh nationalist Plaid Cymru and Scottish National Party.

In the National Assembly for Wales it has, since 2007, formed part of Dwyfor Meirionnydd assembly constituency, represented by Dafydd Elis-Thomas, also of Plaid Cymru, who until 2011 was the Presiding Officer of the assembly.

It has informal links with Cymru X, the youth wing of Plaid Cymru.

Since 1950 Porthmadog has been part of Caernarfon parliamentary constituency, and has been represented by Hywel Williams of Plaid Cymru since 2001.

In the National Assembly for Wales it has since 2007 formed part of Dwyfor-Meirionnydd constituency, represented by Dafydd Elis-Thomas, the Presiding Officer of the assembly, and also from Plaid Cymru.

He has since joined Plaid Cymru.

Plaid has not gained a mainstream following.

While IDM, and techno in general, have experienced a fair amount of popularity at times, Plaid has worked largely within the confines of the low mainstream appeal of their style of music.

While Aphex Twin and Plaid have at different times in their careers worked for the same record label, Warp Records, Aphex Twin has by far remained the most popular of the two.

He has announced himself as a candidate for the leadership of Plaid Cymru following the announcement of the resignation of Ieuan Wyn Jones following the 2011 Assembly elections.

Jones has held a number of positions both in Plaid Cymru and as an UK Member of Parliament and Welsh Assembly Member.

Of Plaid Cymru's entering into government for the first time, Jones said, " The party's role so far has been one of the opposition party which put pressure on the other parties to move things forward for the benefit of Wales ," and " From today we will be sharing the responsibility of directly operating on behalf of the people of Wales.

Criccieth Town Council has 12 elected members ; in the 2008 elections ten Independent councillors and one representing Plaid Cymru were elected unopposed.

Since 1950 Criccieth has been part of Caernarfon parliamentary constituency, and has been represented by Hywel Williams of Plaid Cymru since 2001.

In the National Assembly for Wales it has since 2007 formed part of Dwyfor Meirionnydd assembly constituency, represented by Dafydd Elis-Thomas, the Presiding Officer of the assembly, and also from Plaid Cymru ; the constituency forms part of the electoral region of Mid and West Wales.

In 1977, responding by letter to a written question in the House of Commons from Plaid Cymru MP Dafydd Wigley to the Attorney-General for England and Wales, Lord Chancellor Lord Elwyn-Jones said he could find no record of the charter having been formally amended or withdrawn but also noted academic opinion that " no doubt has ever been expressed about Parliament's power to enact legislation for the stannaries without the need to obtain the consent of Convocation ".

Jonah Sharp has also released collaborations with Tetsu Inoue, Bill Laswell, Mixmaster Morris, Pete Namlook, David Moufang, and Plaid.

Plaid Cymru has a similar ambition for Wales.

However, the results led the party to claim a greater number of ethnic minority councillors than all the other political parties in Wales combined, along with gains in authorities such as Cardiff and Swansea, where Plaid Cymru representation had been minimal.

In the Welsh Assembly election of 3 May 2007, Plaid Cymru increased its number of seats from 12 to 15, regaining Llanelli, gaining one additional list seat and winning the newly created constituency of Aberconwy.

It was held on 1 May 2003. The election was characterised by a resurgence for the Labour Party, whilst Plaid Cymru saw a reduction in support and the number of Assembly Members they returned.

He was a Plaid Cymru Member of the European Parliament for Wales from 1999 to 2004, when he lost his seat in part due to a reduction of the number of seats that Wales had.

The SNP and Plaid Cymru motion proposing a committee of seven senior MPs to review " the way in which the responsibilities of government were discharged in relation to Iraq ", was defeated by 298 votes to 273, a Government majority of 25, but was supported by a significant number of opposition MPs, and twelve " rebel " Labour MPs, including Glenda Jackson.

The Assembly Election of 2011 saw his political comeback, following his successful nomination for the number 1 spot on the Plaid Cymru regional list for Mid and West Wales in the Welsh Assembly, formerly held by Nerys Evans.

In the elections, Plaid Cymru increased its share of the vote to 22 % and its number of seats from 12 to 15, regaining Llanelli, gaining one additional list seat and winning the newly created constituency of Aberconwy The 2007 election also saw Plaid Cymru's Mohammad Asghar become the first ethnic minority candidate elected to the Welsh Assembly, though on 9 December 2009 he left and joined the Conservatives.

The election was marked by the historically high level of support for Plaid Cymru, who won their highest share of the vote in any Wales-wide election and, as of 2011, their highest number of seats in an Assembly election to date.

* In the musical Forever Plaid, the number " Lady of Spain " ends with the phrase " Kiss Topo Gigio Goodnight.

When Dafydd Elis-Thomas ( Plaid ) was reelected as the presiding officer, this reduced the number of opposition AMs who could vote to 29, as the presiding officer only votes in the event of a tie, and even then not on party political lines but rather according to Speaker Denison's rule.

In the 1945 general election, with party membership at around 2, 500, Plaid Cymru contested 7 seats, as many as it had in the preceding 20 years, including constituencies in south Wales for the first time.

Plaid Cymru became the main opposition to the ruling Labour Party, with 17 seats to Labour's 28.

In the 1999 election Plaid Cymru gained seats in traditional Labour areas such as Rhondda, Islwyn and Llanelli, achieving by far its highest share of the vote in any Wales-wide election.

Overall therefore, the party's Parliamentary representation fell to three seats, the lowest level for Plaid Cymru since 1992.

In Wales, Labour gains seats while Plaid Cymru loses seats.

Most of the remaining seats were won by parties that only contest elections in one part of the UK such as the Scottish National Party ( Scotland only ), Plaid Cymru ( Wales only ), and the Democratic Unionist Party, Social Democratic and Labour Party, Ulster Unionist Party, and Sinn Féin ( Northern Ireland ).

The affair was described by Peter Kellner " another fix " in order " to ensure Alun Michael became Labour's leader in Wales " which Keller said " offended so many voters that it lost some of its safest seats, including Rhondda, to Plaid Cymru .".

However, in the May Assembly election of 2003, Plaid Cymru lost five seats, and within a week there were accusations of a plot headed by Assembly Member Helen Mary Jones and four other Plaid Cymru Assembly Members manoeuvering for Jones's removal.

Plaid Cymru lost 4 seats and, with 11 seats, became the third largest party in the Assembly ; behind Labour ( 30 seats ) and the Conservatives ( 14 ).

The UK Independence Party, Green Party and Plaid Cymru won their first ever seats in the European Parliament.

When the Assembly was first elected on 1 May 2003, Labour won 30 seats, Plaid Cymru won 12, the Conservatives won 11, Liberal Democrats won 6, and the John Marek Independent Party won a seat.

Gruffydd was not a candidate and historians have noted that he was more concerned with his academic work than with trying to make a career in politics but the judgment of one historian of the Liberal Party that he was an academic of extremely limited political experience only sitting in the House because of the University seats, seems unduly harsh in the light of Gruffydd's long-time association with Welsh political and social affairs previous vice-presidency of Plaid Cymru and his managing to be returned to the House of Commons when so many others were falling by the wayside-even candidates for university seats had to win the votes of real voters.