Major settlements Dunfermline Major settlement Dunfermline | Created from Dunfermline Number of members 1 | |
Replaced by Dunfermline, Dunfermline and 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.
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.
References
Dunfermline West (UK Parliament constituency) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA