1950 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1950 to Wales and its people.

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23 February - For the first time ever, the Labour Party contests all Parliamentary seats in Wales. Following the General Election, Wales has 27 Labour MPs, 4 Liberals, 3 Conservatives and one National Liberal/Conservative.
- Roderic Bowen is re-elected for Cardiganshire, with the largest Liberal majority in the country.
- David Ormsby-Gore, the future Lord Harlech, becomes MP for Oswestry.
- Abertillery's Labour MP, George Daggar, dies later in the year, to be replaced by Llewelyn Williams.
- Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, following the abolition of his Llandaff and Barry constituency, is elected MP for Leicester North East.
- Roy Jenkins, whose Southwark seat has been abolished, is elected for Birmingham Stechford.
- Elwyn Jones becomes MP for West Ham South.
12 March - 75 of the 78 people on board an Avro Tudor V aircraft are killed when it crashes at Llandow in Glamorgan, making it the world's worst air disaster for the time.
27 August - Six people are killed in a rail collision at Penmaenmawr, Gwynedd.
The world's first scheduled helicopter service operates between Cardiff, Wrexham and Liverpool.
In Swansea, three houses collapse, killing seven people.

The first Welsh Drama Festival is held.
American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith visits the UK to take photographs of working-class; three of those published are of the South Wales valleys.

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caerphilly) (first "all-Welsh" Eisteddfod)

Glyn Houston makes his film debut in The Blue Lamp, which also stars Meredith Edwards.
Ray Milland stars in Copper Canyon and A Woman of Distinction.