Editing Plaid Cymru (section)

===Beginnings===
[[File:Penblwydd Plaid Cymru Anniversary - geograph.org.uk - 644944.jpg|thumb|Plaque commemorating the founding of {{lang|cy|Plaid Cymru, [[Pwllheli]]|italic=no}}]]
While both the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] parties of the early 20th century had accommodated demands for Welsh home rule, no political party existed for the purpose of establishing a Welsh government. {{langnf|cy|Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru|the National Party of Wales}} was formed on 5 August 1925, by [[Moses Gruffydd]], [[H. R. Jones]] and [[Lewis Valentine]], members of {{langnf|cy|Byddin Ymreolwyr Cymru|the Home Rule Army of Wales|paren=left}}; {{lit|the Self-Rulers' Army of Wales}}); and [[Fred Jones (Welsh politician)|Fred Jones]], [[Saunders Lewis]] of {{langnf|cy|Y Mudiad Cymreig|the Welsh Movement}} and D. Edmund Williams.<ref name="Ailgeni">{{cite book |title=Rebirth of a nation: Wales, 1880–1980 |last=Morgan |first=Kenneth O. |author-link=Kenneth O. Morgan |year=1981 |edition=reprint 2002 |volume=6 |series=History of Wales |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=0-19-821760-9 |page=206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=asSr71jWDIEC&pg=PA254 |access-date=9 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603152958/https://books.google.com/books?id=asSr71jWDIEC&pg=PA254 |archive-date=3 June 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> Initially, home rule for Wales was not an explicit aim of the new movement; keeping Wales [[Welsh-speaking]] took primacy, with the aim of making Welsh the only official language of Wales.<ref name="Philip 1975">{{cite book |first=Alan Butt |last=Philip |title=The Welsh Question: Nationalism in Welsh Politics, 1945–1970 |url=https://archive.org/details/welshquestionnat0000phil |url-access=registration |location=Cardiff |publisher=University of Wales Press |year=1975 |isbn=0-7083-0537-7 }}</ref>

In the [[1929 United Kingdom general election|1929 general election]], the party contested its first parliamentary constituency, [[Caernarvonshire (UK Parliament constituency)|Caernarvonshire]], polling 609 votes, or 1.6% of the vote for that seat. The party contested few such elections in its early years, partly due to its ambivalence towards Westminster politics. Indeed, the candidate [[Lewis Valentine]], the party's first president, offered himself in Caernarvonshire on a platform of demonstrating Welsh people's rejection of English dominion.<ref name="McAllister 2001">{{cite book |last=McAllister |first=Laura |title=Plaid Cymru: the Emergence of a Political Party |year=2001 |location=Bridgend |publisher=Seren |isbn=1-85411-310-0 |author-link=Laura McAllister}}</ref>