Dunfermline and West Fife (UK Parliament constituency)

Coordinates: 56°03′25″N 3°25′48″W / 56.057°N 3.430°W / 56.057; -3.430

Dunfermline and West Fife
County constituency
for the House of Commons

Outline map

Boundary of Dunfermline and West Fife in Scotland.
Current constituency
Created 2005
Member of parliament Douglas Chapman (SNP)
Created from Dunfermline West and Dunfermline East
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency Scotland

Dunfermline and West Fife is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from all of the old Dunfermline West and parts of the old Dunfermline East constituencies. The current MP is Douglas Chapman of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

The Dunfermline and West Fife by-election was held in early 2006, due to the death of the sitting MP, Rachel Squire. Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats was the surprise winner, by some 1,800 votes, in what was seen as a safe Labour seat.[1] However, he lost the seat to Labour's Thomas Docherty at the 2010 general election.

Douglas Chapman won the seat in the SNP's Scottish landslide in General Election 2015.

Boundaries

This constituency was formed in 2005 from all of the old Dunfermline West and parts of the old Dunfermline East constituencies.

Rosyth and Inverkeithing in the southeast are the only large population centres on the coast. To the north and west of Dunfermline is more rugged and robust Fife countryside. The whole seat is up against the Firth of Forth.

Places in Dunfermline and West Fife constituency

Royal burghs

Small burghs and large villages

Electoral wards of Dunfermline and small, outlying villages

Members of Parliament

Rachel Squire (Labour) was the MP for Dunfermline West constituency from 1992 until the major revision of the composition of Scottish parliamentary constituencies for the 2005 general election. Gordon Brown was MP for the neighbouring Dunfermline East constituency from which some territory was given to Dunfermline and West Fife.

Squire won the new seat in the 2005 general election and held it until her death on 5 January 2006. The subsequent by-election was held on 9 February 2006, which Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie won in a shock defeat for Labour. The Liberal Democrats also gained the Dunfermline West Scottish Parliamentary constituency from Labour in the 2007 Holyrood Parliament elections.

In the 2010 general election, the Labour candidate Thomas Docherty won the seat back. In the 2015 General Election the seat was won by the SNP's Douglas Chapman.

ElectionMember[2] Party
2005 Rachel Squire Labour
2006 by-election Willie Rennie Liberal Democrat
2010 Thomas Docherty Labour
2015 Douglas Chapman SNP

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

General Election 2015: Dunfermline and West Fife[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
SNP Douglas Chapman 28,096 50.3 +39.6
Labour Thomas Docherty 17,744 31.7 -14.5
Conservative James Adam Reekie 6,623 11.9 +5.1
Liberal Democrat Gillian Cole-Hamilton[5] 2,232 4.0 -31.1
Scottish Green Lewis Alan Campbell[6] 1,195 2.1 N/A
Majority 10,352 18.5
Turnout 55,890 71.6 +5.2
SNP gain from Labour Swing +27.1
General Election 2010: Dunfermline and West Fife[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Thomas Docherty 22,639 46.3 -1.1
Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie 17,169 35.1 +14.9
SNP Joe McCall 5,201 10.6 -8.3
Conservative Belinda Hacking 3,305 6.8 -3.5
UKIP Otto Inglis 633 1.3 -0.2
Majority 5,470 11.2
Turnout 48,947 66.4 +6.5
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s

Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, 2006
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie 12,391 35.8 +15.6
Labour Catherine Stihler 10,591 30.6 -16.8
SNP Douglas Chapman 7,261 21.0 +2.1
Conservative Carrie Ruxton 2,702 7.8 -2.5
Scottish Socialist John McAllion 537 1.6 -0.1
Scottish Christian George Hargreaves 411 1.2
Abolish Forth Bridge Tolls Party Tom Minogue 374 1.1
UKIP Ian Borland 208 0.6 -0.9
Common Good Dick Rodgers 103 0.3
Majority 1,800 5.2
Turnout 34,578 47.9 -12.0
Liberal Democrat gain from Labour Swing 16.5
General Election 2005: Dunfermline and Fife West[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Rachel Squire 20,111 47.4 -7.1
Liberal Democrat David Herbert 8,549 20.2 +5.9
SNP Douglas Chapman 8,026 18.9 +1.1
Conservative Roger Smillie 4,376 10.3 +0.6
Scottish Socialist Susan Archibald 689 1.6 -0.8
UKIP Ian Borland 643 1.5 +0.1
Majority 11,562 27.3
Turnout 42,394 59.9 +2.3
Labour hold Swing -6.5

References

  1. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4695270.stm
  2. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)
  3. ↑ "Election Data 2015". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/topics/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&p2sid=10CC3530-AA3B-9CCD-63F538B9ABCE0DB5&themeid=2B892409-722D-4F61-B1CC-7DE81CC06A90 26Aug15
  5. ↑ "List of selected candidates". Liberal Democrats. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  6. ↑ http://www.scottishgreens.org.uk/news/scottish-greens-confirm-32-candidates-for-biggest-mp-push/
  7. ↑ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Election Data 2005". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 15 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
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