Dunfermline (Scottish Parliament constituency)
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Dunfermline shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
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| Created | 2011 |
| MSP | Shirley-Anne Somerville |
| Council area | Fife |
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.
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.
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.
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