Number of members 1 | ||
Type of constituency District of Burghs constituency Created from Stirling Burghs
West Fife Major settlements Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Inverkeithing, Lochgelly Replaced by Stirling Burghs, West Fife, Dunfermline | ||
Dunfermline Burghs was a burgh constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1974. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.
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From 1918 to 1950 it was also, officially, a district of burghs constituency.
There was also a Dunfermline county constituency from 1974 to 1983.
Boundaries
As defined in 1918 the constituency covered the parliamentary burghs of Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Inverkeithing, and Lochgelly. Prior to the constituency's creation, the burghs of Dunfermline and Inverkeithing had been represented as components of Stirling Burghs, while Cowdenbeath and Lochgelly were within the county constituency of West Fife.
Elections in the 1910s
References
Dunfermline Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA