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- ↑ Plaid Cymru official website: "Dafydd Trystan Davies is the new Plaid Cymru chair", 12 October 2013 Archived 22 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 15 October 2013
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- ↑ Aberdare Online, 14 October 2013 Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 15 October 2013
- ↑ Wales Online, "Dr Dafydd Trystan Davies selected as Cynon Valley’s Plaid Cymru candidate in next year’s Welsh Assembly elections", 16 September 2010. Accessed 15 October 2013
- ↑ "PLAID’S DR DAFYDD TRYSTAN DAVIES TO FIGHT LABOUR’S VAUGHAN GETHING FOR PENARTH ASSEMBLY SEAT", Penarth News, 26 July 2013. Accessed 15 October 2013
