1. Alun John Pugh was born on 9 June 1955 and is a Welsh politician who served as the Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Clwyd West from 1999 to 2007.
10 Facts About Alun Pugh
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Alun Pugh was born in Llwynypia, Mid Glamorgan, into a poor coal mining family.
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Alun Pugh has a degree in business finance and post-graduate qualifications in computer science and education, and moved to North Wales from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
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Alun Pugh was Head of Business Studies at Coleg Llandrillo Cymru, a large further education college.
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Alun Pugh was a columnist for the Daily Post and ran consultancy projects before his re selection for the 2015 general election.
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Alun Pugh was elected in the National Assembly for Wales election in 1999 to the marginal Clwyd West seat of the National Assembly for Wales.
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Alun Pugh was re-elected in 2003 as well as being appointed to the post of Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport in the Welsh Assembly Government.
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Alun Pugh remained an Assembly Member until his 2007 election defeat by Conservative Darren Millar by a margin of 1,596 votes.
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Alun Pugh stood in the new constituency of Arfon in the 2010 Westminster election but narrowly lost to Plaid Cymru's Hywel Williams by a margin of 1,455 votes.
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Alun Pugh contested the seat at the 2015 general election, again against Hywel Williams, where he was defeated by a larger margin of 3,668 votes.