Dunfermline (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Constituency of the Scottish Parliament
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Dunfermline (Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain) is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of Fife.[2] It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it is also 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.[3] Created in 2011, it comprises parts of the former constituencies of Dunfermline East and Dunfermline West.[4]
| Dunfermline | |
|---|---|
| County constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
| |
 Dunfermline shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Electoral region | Mid Scotland and Fife |
| Electorate | 62,615 (2022)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2011 |
| Party | SNP |
| MSP | Shirley-Anne Somerville |
| Council area | Fife |
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, Fife North East, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and Stirling.[3] 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.[5]
Constituency boundaries and council area
Fife is represented in the Scottish Parliament by five constituencies, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes and Fife North East.[6]
The Dunfermline constituency was created by the first periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election from the following electoral wards of Fife Council:[4][2]
- In full:
- In part:
- Rosyth (shared with Cowdenbeath)
At the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025 the seat boundaries were very slightly altered by a minor change of the boundary with the Cowdenbeath constituency in order to match ward boundaries (no electors were affected by this boundary change).[7]
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] | |||||||
| Labour | Joe Long | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Lauren Buchanan-Quigley | |||||||
| Reform | Otto Inglis | |||||||
| Conservative | Thomas Heald | |||||||
| Advance UK | ||||||||
| AtLS | ||||||||
| ISP | ||||||||
| Independent Green Voice | ||||||||
| Scottish Family | ||||||||
| Green | ||||||||
| Scottish Libertarian | ||||||||
| Scottish Socialist | ||||||||
| Majority | ||||||||
| Valid votes | ||||||||
| Invalid votes | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | 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 |
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| 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 | |||||||
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 | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| 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
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