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Dunfermline West | |
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Former
County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Major settlements | Dunfermline |
1983– 2005 | |
Seats | One |
Created from | Dunfermline |
Replaced by | Dunfermline & West Fife |
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.
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, Blairhall and Oakley.
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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Dick Douglas | 12,998 | 36.0 | -8.8 | |
Conservative | Peter Davidson | 10,524 | 29.2 | +0.6 | |
SDP | Frank Moyes | 9,434 | 26.1 | +14.5 | |
SNP | Jim Fairlie | 2,798 | 7.8 | -7.2 | |
Ecology | Stuart Dobson | 321 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 2,474 | 6.8 | -9.4 | ||
Turnout | 49,075 | 73.5 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Dick Douglas | 18,493 | 47.1 | +11.1 | |
Conservative | Phil Gallie | 9,091 | 23.1 | −6.1 | |
SDP | Frank Moyes | 8,288 | 21.1 | −5.0 | |
SNP | Gordon Hughes | 3,435 | 8.7 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 9,402 | 24.0 | +17.2 | ||
Turnout | 39,307 | 76.9 | +3.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Democrats | Elizabeth Harris | 6,122 | 15.7 | −5.4 | |
Majority | 7,484 | 19.2 | -4.8 | ||
Turnout | 38,949 | 76.4 | −0.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rachel Squire | 19,338 | 53.1 | +11.6 | |
SNP | John Lloyd | 6,984 | 19.2 | −0.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Harris | 4,963 | 13.6 | −2.0 | |
Conservative | Kevin Newton | 4,606 | 12.6 | −10.4 | |
Referendum | James Bain | 543 | 1.5 | New | |
Majority | 12,354 | 33.9 | +20.7 | ||
Turnout | 36,434 | 69.3 | −7.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Rachel Squire | 16,370 | 52.8 | −0.3 | |
SNP | Brian Goodall | 5,390 | 17.4 | −1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Russel McPhate | 4,832 | 15.6 | +2.0 | |
Conservative | James Mackie | 3,166 | 10.2 | −2.4 | |
Scottish Socialist | Catherine Stewart | 746 | 2.4 | New | |
UKIP | Alastair Harper | 471 | 1.5 | New | |
Majority | 10,980 | 35.4 | +1.5 | ||
Turnout | 30,975 | 57.1 | −12.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 0.8 SNP to Labour |