Dunfermline (Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Fife. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
| Dunfermline | |
|---|---|
| Burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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.svg) Dunfermline shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Population | 77,005 (2019)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2011 |
| Party | SNP |
| MSP | Shirley-Anne Somerville |
| Council area | Fife |
Created in 2011, it comprises parts of the former constituencies of Dunfermline East and Dunfermline West.
Bill Walker narrowly won the seat for the Scottish National Party in 2011, however he resigned after being convicted of assault charges in 2013. This led to the 2013 Dunfermline by-election, in which Labour's Cara Hilton was elected, defeating the SNP's Shirley-Anne Somerville. However Somerville subsequently ousted Hilton in the 2016 election and was re-elected in 2021.
Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are: Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, North East Fife, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and Stirling.
The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area and all of the Stirling council area.
Constituency boundaries and council area
Fife is represented in the Scottish Parliament by five constituencies, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes and North East Fife.
The Dunfermline constituency is formed from the following electoral wards, all of which are part of Fife:[2]
- In full:
- In part:
- Rosyth (shared with Cowdenbeath)
Member of the Scottish Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Bill Walker | SNP | |
| 2012 | Independent | ||
| 2013 | Cara Hilton | Labour | |
| 2016 | Shirley-Anne Somerville | SNP | |
Election results
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Shirley-Anne Somerville[a] | 20,048 | 49.0 |  5.7 | 16,623 | 40.5 | 0.4 | |
| Labour | Julie MacDougall | 11,384 | 27.8 |  1.7 | 8,468 | 20.6 | 2.5 | |
| Conservative | Roz McCall | 6,314 | 15.4 | 2.2 | 7,884 | 19.2 | 0.8 | |
| Scottish Green | 3,432 | 8.4 | 3.0 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Aude Boubaker-Calder | 3,196 | 7.8 | 1.8 | 2,956 | 7.2 | 1.4 | |
| Alba | 772 | 1.9 | New | |||||
| All for Unity | 290 | 0.7 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 228 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 97 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 94 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 78 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Reform UK | 62 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| UKIP | 42 | 0.1 | 1.6 | |||||
| Independent | Martin Keatings | 38 | 0.1 | New | ||||
| Renew | 16 | 0.0 | New | |||||
| Independent | Mercy Kamanja | 3 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Majority | 8,664 | 21.2 | 7.4 | |||||
| Valid Votes | 40,942 | 41,083 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 167 | 77 | ||||||
| Turnout | 41,109 | 66.0 | 8.8 | 41,160 | 66.0 | 8.8 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
Notes | ||||||||
2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Shirley-Anne Somerville | 14,257 | 43.3 | 5.7 | 13,223 | 40.1 | 0.9 | |
| Labour | Cara Hilton[b] | 9,699 | 29.5 | 6.1 | 7,634 | 23.1 | 8.8 | |
| Conservative | James Reekie | 5,797 | 17.6 | 10.5 | 6,597 | 20.0 | 12.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | James Calder | 3,156 | 9.6 | 10.1 | 2,826 | 8.6 | 2.7 | |
| Scottish Green | 1,796 | 5.4 | 2.2 | |||||
| UKIP | 598 | 1.7 | 0.9 | |||||
| Solidarity | 138 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |||||
| RISE | 117 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 60 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Majority | 4,558 | 13.8 | 11.8 | |||||
| Valid Votes | 32,909 | 32,989 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 99 | 31 | ||||||
| Turnout | 33,008 | 57.2 | 4.2 | 33,020 | 57.2 | 4.1 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 5.9 | ||||||
Notes | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Cara Hilton | 10,279 | 42.5 | 6.9 | |
| SNP | Shirley-Anne Somerville | 7,402 | 30.7 | 6.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Leslie | 2,852 | 11.8 | 7.9 | |
| Conservative | James Reekie | 2,009 | 8.3 | 1.2 | |
| UKIP | Peter Adams | 908 | 3.8 | New | |
| Scottish Green | Zara Kitson | 593 | 2.5 | New | |
| Independent | John Black | 161 | 0.7 | New | |
| Majority | 2,877 | 11.8 | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes | 24,200 | ||||
| Rejected ballots | 41 | ||||
| Turnout | 24,241 | 42.8 | 10.2 | ||
| Labour gain from SNP | Swing | 6.9 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Bill Walker | 11,010 | 37.6 | N/A | 12,039 | 41.0 | N/A | |
| Labour | Alex Rowley | 10,420 | 35.6 | N/A | 9,371 | 31.9 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jim Tolson[a] | 5,776 | 19.7 | N/A | 3,304 | 11.3 | N/A | |
| Conservative | James Reekie | 2,093 | 7.1 | N/A | 2,283 | 7.8 | N/A | |
| Scottish Green | 928 | 3.2 | N/A | |||||
| All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 420 | 1.4 | N/A | |||||
| UKIP | 276 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 221 | 0.8 | N/A | |||||
| BNP | 197 | 0.7 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 99 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| CPA | 74 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 72 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
| Independent | Andrew Roger | 56 | 0.2 | N/A | ||||
| Solidarity | 24 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Majority | 590 | 2.0 | N/A | |||||
| Valid Votes | 29,299 | 29,364 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 92 | 82 | ||||||
| Turnout | 29,391 | 53.0 | N/A | 29,446 | 53.1 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new seat) | ||||||||
Notes | ||||||||
Footnotes
External links
- "Dunfermline constituency map" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.