Dunfermline West (UK Parliament constituency)
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Dunfermline West | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Major settlements | Dunfermline |
1983–2005 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Dunfermline & West Fife |
Created from | Dunfermline |
Dunfermline West was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1983 until 2005. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.
Before 1983 the area was covered by the Dunfermline constituency and from 2005 the seat was replaced by the new Dunfermline and West Fife.
Contents
Boundaries
The seat of Dunfermline West contained all of the town of Dunfermline as well as territory on the north bank of the Firth of Forth. It took in the affluent villages of Limekilns, Crossford and Cairneyhill; it also included coalfield communities such as High Valleyfield, Saline, Blairhill and Oakley.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1983 | Dick Douglas | Labour Co-operative | |
1990 | Independent | ||
1990 | SNP | ||
1992 | Rachel Squire | Labour | |
2005 | constituency abolished |
Elections
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Elections of the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rachel Squire | 16,370 | 52.8 | −0.3 | |
SNP | Brian John Goodall | 5,390 | 17.4 | −1.8 | |
Liberal Democrat | Russel McPhate | 4,832 | 15.6 | +2.0 | |
Conservative | James Alexander Mackie | 3,166 | 10.2 | −2.4 | |
Scottish Socialist | Mrs. Catherine Stewart | 746 | 2.4 | N/A | |
UKIP | Alastair Douglas Harper | 471 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 10,980 | 35.4 | |||
Turnout | 30,975 | 57.1 | −12.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 0.8 SNP to Labour |
Elections of the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rachel Squire | 19338 | 53.1 | +11.6 | |
SNP | John Lloyd | 6,984 | 19.2 | −0.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Elizabeth B.A. Harris | 4,963 | 13.6 | −2.0 | |
Conservative | Kevin A. Newton | 4,606 | 12.6 | −10.4 | |
Referendum | James Bain | 543 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Majority | 12,354 | 33.9 | |||
Turnout | 36,434 | 69.3 | −7.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rachel Squire | 16,374 | 42.0 | −5.1 | |
Conservative | Michael D.A. Scott-Hayward | 8,890 | 22.8 | −0.3 | |
SNP | Jay Smith | 7,563 | 19.4 | +10.7 | |
Liberal Democrat | Mrs. Elizabeth Bruce Anderson Harris | 6,122 | 15.7 | −5.4 | |
Majority | 7,484 | 19.3 | |||
Turnout | 38,949 | 76.4 | −0.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Elections of the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Dick Douglas | 18,493 | 47.1 | +11.1 | |
Conservative | Phil Gallie | 9,091 | 23.1 | −6.1 | |
Social Democratic | Frank Arnold Moyes | 8,288 | 21.1 | −5.0 | |
SNP | Gordon John Hughes | 3,435 | 8.7 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 9,402 | 24.0 | |||
Turnout | 39,307 | 76.9 | +3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Dick Douglas | 12,998 | 36.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Dr. P.S. Davidson | 10,524 | 29.2 | N/A | |
Social Democratic | Frank Arnold Moyes | 9,434 | 26.1 | N/A | |
SNP | Jim Fairlie | 2,798 | 7.8 | N/A | |
Green | S.J. Dobson | 321 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 2,474 | 6.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,075 | 73.5 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) |
References
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
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- Historic parliamentary constituencies in Scotland (Westminster)
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 2005
- Politics of Dunfermline
- Politics of Fife