How Parties have Adapted to Change – Cadre Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Mass Membership Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Catch-All Party
How Parties Have Adapted to Change – The Cartel Party
Theories of Party Systems -The Frozen Party System
Theories of Party Systems – The Downs Model
Theories of Party Systems – Satori
How do voters decide who to vote for
How do voters decide who to vote for – The Michigan Studies
How do voters decide who to vote for – Social Class
How do voters decide who to vote for – Partisan Dealignment
Electoral Geography of Great Britain
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Conservatives
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Labour
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Liberals
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Plaid Cymru
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – SNP
Electoral Geography in Great Britain – UKIP
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Green Party
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – Respect
Electoral Geography of Great Britain – BNP
General Election Campaign – Choosing the Date
General Election Campaign – The Media
General Election Campaigns – Three types of Media
General Election Campaigns – Opinion Polls
General Election Campaigns – turn-out
Why did people vote the way they did – Social Class
Why did people vote the way they did – Housing Tenure
Why did people vote the way they did – Age
Why did people vote the way they did – Gender
The party had its first breakthrough in a by-election in Carmarthen in 1966 and from then until 1997 its success was limit to a handful of other seats in rural Wales, where Welsh was still spoken.
In the referendum for a Welsh Assembly in 1997 the very narrow Yes vote depended on support from the economically declining Welsh Valleys as well as rural Wales.
In the 2007 Assembly election Plaid Cymru was able to poll well in the Valleys, without winning any seats, as well as to make some gains in constituencies around their heartland area and, with the proportional seats as well, entered in a coalition with Labour to run the Welsh Government. They lost some of this vote to Labour in 2011.
An opinion poll in the summer of 2013 showed Labour making further advances but Plaid Cymru easily retained the Welsh Assembly seat in Ynys Môn in August.
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