Dunfermline and West Fife is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the

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. 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

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(SNP). The

Dunfermline and West Fife by-election The Dunfermline and West Fife by-election was held on 9 February 2006, following the death of the sitting Labour MP Rachel Squire, on 6 January. The by-election was the first seat to change hands in the 2005 Parliament, when Willie Rennie won ...

was held in early 2006, due to the death of the sitting MP,

Rachel Squire Rachel Anne Squire (13 July 1954 – 5 January 2006) was a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline West in Scotland from 1992 general election to 2005, and then for Dunfermline and West Fife from 2005 ...

. Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats was the surprise winner, by some 1,800 votes, in what was seen as a safe Labour seat. However, he lost the seat to Labour's Thomas Docherty at the 2010 general election. Chapman then won the seat in the SNP's Scottish landslide in the 2015 general election.

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 The Firth of Forth () is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south. Name ''Firth'' is a cognate of ''fjord'', a Norse word meani ...

Places in Dunfermline and West Fife constituency

Royal burghs

* Culross *

Dunfermline Dunfermline (; sco, Dunfaurlin, gd, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish and former Royal Burgh, in Fife, Scotland, on high ground from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. The city currently has an estimated population of 58,508. Acco ...

* Inverkeithing

Small burghs and large villages

* Cairneyhill * Kincardine on Forth *

Limekilns Limekilns is a village in Fife, Scotland. It lies on the shore of the Firth of Forth, around south of Dunfermline. History and economy Unlike the neighbouring village of Charlestown, Limekilns is an old settlement dating back to the 14th cen ...

North Queensferry North Queensferry is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated on the Firth of Forth where the Forth Bridge, the Forth Road Bridge, and the Queensferry Crossing all meet the Fife coast, some from the centre of Edinburgh. It is the southernmost ...

* Rosyth

Electoral wards of Dunfermline and small, outlying villages

*Baldridgeburn *Bellyeoman *Blairhall * Brucefield * Carnegie *Carnock * Comrie *Crombie *Crossford * Crossgates *Garvock *Gowkhall *Halbeath *Headwell *High Valleyfield * Hill of Beath * Kingseat *Linburn * Low Valleyfield *Milesmark * Mossside *Nethertown * Oakley * Pitcorthie * Pitreavie * Saline *

Steelend Steelend is a former mining village in West Fife, Scotland, located on the B914 road approximately three-quarters of a mile east of the village of Saline and four miles north-west of Dunfermline. The village is home to a community centre and th ...

*Torryburn * Townhill * Wellwood *Woodmill

Members of Parliament

( 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.

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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.

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

References

External links

Boundary Commission for Scotland, UK Parliament constituencies 2005 onwards
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dunfermline And West Fife (Uk Parliament Constituency) Westminster Parliamentary constituencies in Scotland Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 2005 Politics of Fife Politics of Dunfermline Inverkeithing Blairhall Rosyth