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==== First Plaid Cymru MP ====
[[File:Gwynfor Evans.jpg|thumb|197x197px|[[Gwynfor Evans]] in 1951.]]
The leader of [[Plaid Cymru]], [[Gwynfor Evans]] won the party's first-ever seat in Westminster in Carmarthen in 1966, which "helped change the course of a nation" according to Dr Martin Johnes of Swansea University. This, paired with the SNP's Winnie Ewing's winning a seat in Hamilton, Scotland in 1967 may have contributed to pressure on Labour prime minister Harold Wilson to form the [[Royal Commission on the Constitution (United Kingdom)|Kilbrandon Commission]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Remembering Gwynfor Evans' by-election which changed Welsh history |url=https://www.thenational.wales/news/19426429.remembering-gwynfor-evans-by-election-changed-welsh-history/ |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=The National Wales |language=en |archive-date=2021-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923062559/https://www.thenational.wales/news/19426429.remembering-gwynfor-evans-by-election-changed-welsh-history/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="BBC News">{{Cite news |date=2016-07-14 |title=Plaid Cymru's first MP 'helped change course of a nation' |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-36772269 |access-date=2022-03-10}}</ref> This event may have also contributed to the passing of the [[Welsh Language Act 1967]].<ref name="BBC News"/> This act repealed a provision in the [[Wales and Berwick Act 1746]] that the term "England" should include Wales, thus defining Wales to be a separate entity from England within the UK.<ref>{{cite web|date=July 2011|title=The Constitution Series: 1 – Wales in the United Kingdom|url=http://www.assembly.wales/Research%20Documents/The%20Constitution%20Wales%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20-%20Quick%20guide-22072011-217207/qg07-0001-English.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420062743/http://www.assembly.wales/Research%20Documents/The%20Constitution%20Wales%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20-%20Quick%20guide-22072011-217207/qg07-0001-English.pdf|archive-date=20 April 2016|access-date=6 April 2016|publisher=National Assembly for Wales}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|date=2012-07-26|title=The Welsh language Act of 1967|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/fe99df6b-bf61-3cb0-a695-fa76c013fc98|access-date=2022-01-31|website=BBC|language=en}}</ref> The legislation permitted the use of Welsh including in courts of law. The act was in part based upon the Hughes Parry Report from 1965. While the [[Welsh Courts Act 1942|Welsh Courts Act in 1942]] had previously allowed limited use of Welsh if defendants or plaintiffs had limited knowledge of English, the 1967 act was far more robust. While the act itself was quite limited, it had large symbolic importance.<ref name=":5" /> In 1966, [[Emlyn Hooson]] convinced a majority of delegates to merge both the Welsh liberal federations into a single entity, forming the [[Welsh Liberal Party]]. The new party had far more authority, and gradually centralised the finances and policy of the party in Wales.<ref name="
==== National Assembly referendums ====
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