Founded 2011 | Council area Fife | |
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Created Scottish Parliament election, 2011 | ||
Dunfermline is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, it is 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.
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Created in 2011, it comprises parts of the former constituencies of Dunfermline East and Dunfermline West.
Following the resignation of Bill Walker, there was the Dunfermline by-election, 2013, at which Labour's Cara Hilton was elected.
In the 2016 election, SNP's Shirley-Anne Somerville defeats Labour's Cara Hilton.
Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, North East Fife, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and Stirling.
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.
Constituency boundaries and council area
Fife is represented in the Scottish Parliament by five constituencies, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes and North East Fife.
The Dunfermline constituency is formed from the following electoral wards;