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  Type County
  Entity Scotland
  DivisionType Council Areas
  Division Fife
  Year 2005
  MP Willie Rennie
  Party Liberal Democrat
  EP Scotland


Dunfermline and West Fife is a Constituency represented in the House Of Commons of the Parliament Of The United Kingdom . It was created for the 2005 General Election from all of the old Dunfermline West and parts of the old Dunfermline East constituencies.

The Dunfermline And West Fife By-election was held in early 2006, due to the death of the sitting MP, Rachel Squire . Willie Rennie of the Liberal Democrats was the winner, by some 1,800 votes, obtaining a huge 16.24% swing in what was seen as a safe Labour seat.


BOUNDARIES

This new seat is based on the whole of the former Dunfermline West constituency. 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 .


MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT


Rachel Squire ( Labour ) was the MP for Dunfermline West Constituency from 1992 until the major revision of the composition of Scottish parliamentary consituencies for the 2005 General Election . Current Chancellor Of The Exchequer Gordon Brown was MP for the neighbouring Dunfermline East Constituency from which some terrority 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.


ELECTION RESULTS

  title United Kingdom Parliament: Dunfermline and West Fife by-election 2006


  party Liberal Democrats (UK)
  candidate Willie Rennie
  votes 12,391
  percentage 358
  change +156


  party Labour Party (UK)
  candidate Catherine Stihler
  votes 10,591
  percentage 306
  change -168


  party Scottish National Party
  candidate Douglas Chapman
  votes 7,261
  percentage 210
  change +21


  party Conservative Party (UK)
  candidate Carrie Ruxton
  votes 2,702
  percentage 78
  change -25


  party Scottish Socialist Party
  candidate John McAllion
  votes 537
  percentage 16
  change -01


  party Scottish Christian Party
  candidate George Hargreaves
  votes 411
  percentage 12


  party Abolish Forth Bridge Tolls Party
  candidate Tom Minogue
  votes 374
  percentage 11


  party United Kingdom Independence Party
  candidate Ian Borland
  votes 208
  percentage 06
  change -09


  party The Common Good
  candidate Dick Rodgers
  votes 103
  percentage 03


  votes 1,800
  percentage 52


  votes 34,578
  percentage 479
  change -120


  winner Liberal Democrats (UK)
  loser Labour Party (UK)
  swing 165



  title General Election 2005 : Dunfermline and Fife West


  party Labour Party (UK)
  candidate Rachel Squire
  votes 20,111
  percentage 474
  change -71


  party Liberal Democrats (UK)
  candidate David Herbert
  votes 8,549
  percentage 202
  change +59


  party Scottish National Party
  candidate Douglas Chapman
  votes 8,026
  percentage 189
  change +11


  party Conservative Party (UK)
  candidate Roger Smillie
  votes 4,376
  percentage 103
  change +06


  party Scottish Socialist Party
  candidate Susan Archibald
  votes 689
  percentage 16
  change -08


  party United Kingdom Independence Party
  candidate Ian Borland
  votes 643
  percentage 15
  change +01


  votes 11,562
  percentage 273


  votes 42,394
  percentage 599
  change +23


  winner Labour Party (UK)
  swing -65


This constituency was formed in 2005 from all of the old Dunfermline West and parts of the old Dunfermline East constituencies.

The results of these constituencies at the 2001 general election are listed below.
  title General Election 2001 : Dunfermline West


  party Labour Party (UK)
  candidate Rachel Squire
  votes 16,370
  percentage 528
  change -02


  party Scottish National Party
  candidate Brian Goodall
  votes 5,390
  percentage 174
  change -18


  party Liberal Democrats (UK)
  candidate Russel McPhate
  votes 4,832
  percentage 156
  change +20


  party Conservative Party (UK)
  candidate James Mackie
  votes 3,166
  percentage 102
  change -24


  party Scottish Socialist Party
  candidate Catherine Stewart
  votes 746
  percentage 24
  change ''N/A''


  party United Kingdom Independence Party
  candidate Alastair Harper
  votes 471
  percentage 15
  change ''N/A''


  votes 10,980
  percentage 354


  votes 30,975
  percentage 571
  change -123


  winner Labour Party (UK)



  title General Election 2001 : Dunfermline East


  party Labour Party (UK)
  candidate Gordon Brown
  votes 19,487
  percentage 648
  change -20


  party Scottish National Party
  candidate Johnny Mellon
  votes 4,424
  percentage 147
  change -08


  party Conservative Party (UK)
  candidate Stuart Randall
  votes 2,838
  percentage 94
  change -06


  party Liberal Democrats (UK)
  candidate John Mainland
  votes 2,281
  percentage 76
  change +17


  party Scottish Socialist Party
  candidate Andrew Jackson
  votes 770
  percentage 26
  change ''N/A''


  party United Kingdom Independence Party
  candidate Tom Dunsmore
  votes 286
  percentage 10
  change ''N/A''


  votes 15,063
  percentage 501


  votes 30,086
  percentage 570
  change -132


  winner Labour Party (UK)



PLACES IN DUNFERMLINE AND WEST FIFE CONSTITUENCY


Royal Burghs



Small Burgh s and large villages



Electoral wards of Dunfermline and small, outlying villages



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