Dunfermline (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline
burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament

Dunfermline shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
MSP	Shirley-Anne Somerville
Council area	Fife

Not to be confused with Dunfermline (Parliament of Scotland constituency).

Dunfermline is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, 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.

Created in 2011, it comprises parts of the former constituencies of Dunfermline East and Dunfermline West.

Following the resignation of Bill Walker, there was the Dunfermline by-election, 2013, at which Labour's Cara Hilton was elected.

In the 2016 election, SNP's Shirley-Anne Somerville defeats Labour's Cara Hilton.

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;

In full: West Fife and Coastal Villages, Dunfermline North, Dunfermline Central, Dunfermline South
In part: The Lochs (shared with Cowdenbeath)

Member of the Scottish Parliament

	Member	Party
2011	Bill Walker	Scottish National Party
2012	Bill Walker	Independent
2013	Cara Hilton	Scottish Labour Party
2016	Shirley-Anne Somerville	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Dunfermline
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Shirley-Anne Somerville	14,257	43.3	+5.7
	Labour	Cara Hilton	9,699	29.5	-6.1
	Conservative	James Reekie	5,797	17.6	+10.5
	Liberal Democrats	James Calder	3,156	9.6	-10.1
Majority			4,558	13.8
Turnout			33,008	57.17
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing	+5.9

Scottish Parliament by-election, 2013: Dunfermline
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Cara Hilton	10,279	42.47	+6.87
	SNP	Shirley-Anne Somerville	7,402	30.58	-7.02
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Leslie	2,852	11.78	-7.92
	Conservative	James Reekie	2,009	8.3	+1.20
	UKIP	Peter Adams	908	3.75	N/A
	Scottish Green	Zara Kitson	593	2.45	N/A
	Independent	John Black	161	0.67	N/A
Majority			2,877	11.89
Turnout			24200	42.65	9.85
	Labour gain from SNP		Swing	+6.94

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Dunfermline
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	Bill Walker	11,010	37.6	+13.5
	Labour	Alex Rowley	10,420	35.6	+2.7
	Liberal Democrats	Jim Tolson	5,776	19.7	-13.5
	Conservative	James Reekie	2,093	7.1	-1.2
Majority			590	2
Turnout			29396	53.0
	SNP gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	+5.4

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Dunfermline
Party		Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	9,030	33.2
	Labour	8,953	32.9
	SNP	6,553	24.1
	Conservative	2,277	8.4
	Others	406	1.5
Majority		77	0.3

Footnotes

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Lothian	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Mid Scotland and Fife	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West

South Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale, and Lauderdale

West Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

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