Editing Cynog Dafis (section)

=== Member of Parliament ===
Dafis joined [[Plaid Cymru]] in his youth. He left the party in 1964 but rejoined in 1979.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Rhys |last2=Fowler |first2=Carwyn |date=September 2008 |title=Fractured Intellectuals and the Nation: Cynog Dafis and Welsh Nationalism |url=https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/publications/fractured-intellectuals-and-the-nation-cynog-dafis-and-welsh-nati |journal=Contemporary Wales |publisher=University of Wales Press |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=130–149 |access-date=14 January 2024}}</ref>{{Rp|page=6}} He first contested [[Ceredigion and Pembroke North (UK Parliament constituency)|Ceredigion and Pembroke North]] in 1983 and finished in fourth place, a result repeated in 1987. His victory in 1992 was a notable one as he more than doubled his vote.

Dafis was a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Ceredigion (UK Parliament constituency)|Ceredigion]] from 1992 until 2000, having been supported by a coalition of local [[Plaid Cymru]] and [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]] activists, the latter of which had worked with him on a number of environmental initiatives.{{sfn|Burchell|2000|p=147}} Between 1992 and 1997 Dafis sat in Parliament as an official Plaid Cymru and Green Party MP, having been elected on a [[joint ticket]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Porritt |first=Jonathon |date=1994-08-28 |title=We need more shades of green: Jonathon Porritt is in disgrace with his party, but unrepentant: they are failing to grasp the new politics |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/we-need-more-shades-of-green-jonathon-porritt-is-in-disgrace-with-his-party-but-unrepentant-they-are-failing-to-grasp-the-new-politics-1379329.html |access-date=2023-12-24 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Palmer |first=Mark |date=2011-02-28 |title='Hybrid' gives first Green MP title to Caroline Lucas |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-12599220 |access-date=2023-12-24}}</ref> He agrees with the Greens' official recognition of [[Caroline Lucas]] as the first Green MP, as he was "a kind of hybrid, so I don't really count".<ref name=":0" /> 

During this eight-year period as an MP, Dafis voted for homosexual law reform, against greater autonomy for schools, and for removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10151/cynog_dafis/ceredigion/votes|title=Voting record - Mr Cynog Dafis, former MP, Ceredigion - TheyWorkForYou|website=TheyWorkForYou|access-date=9 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/151&showall=yes#divisions|title=Voting Record — Mr Cynog Dafis MP, Ceredigion (10151) — The Public Whip|website=www.publicwhip.org.uk|access-date=9 August 2017}}</ref>