Dundee City West (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Dundee City West | |
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burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
Dundee City West shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2011 |
Party | Scottish National Party |
MSP | Joe FitzPatrick |
Council area | Dundee City |
Created from | Dundee West |
Dundee City West is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Electoral region
The other nine constituencies of the North East Scotland region are Aberdeen Central, Aberdeen Donside, Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Aberdeenshire East, Aberdeenshire West, Angus North and Mearns, Angus South, Banffshire and Buchan Coast and Dundee City East.
The region covers all of the Aberdeen City council area, the Aberdeenshire council area, the Angus council area, the Dundee City council area and part of the Moray council area.
Constituency boundaries and council area
The Dundee West constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, the boundaries of the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency were subject to some alteration.
Dundee City is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Dundee City East and Dundee City West.
From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the redrawn and renamed Dundee City West constituency consists of the following electoral wards:
- In full: Strathmartine, Lochee, West End
- In part: Coldside, Maryfield, North East (shared with Dundee City East)
Member of the Scottish Parliament
As Dundee West
Election | Member | Party | |
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1999 | Kate Maclean | Labour | |
2003 | |||
2007 | Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | |
As Dundee City West
Election | Member | Party | |
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2011 | Joe FitzPatrick | Scottish National Party | |
2016 |
Election results
Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Dundee City West[1] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
SNP | Joe Fitzpatrick | 16,070 | 57.8% | 0.2% | 15,092 | 54.2% | |||
Labour | Jenny Marra | 7,242 | 26.1% | 5.4% | 6,055 | 21.8% | |||
Conservative | Nicola Ross | 2,826 | 10.2% | 3.5% | 3,232 | 11.6% | |||
Liberal Democrats | Daniel Coleman | 1,008 | 3.6% | 0.7% | 707 | 2.5% | |||
TUSC | Jim McFarlane | 642 | 2.3% | 0.7% | |||||
Scottish Green | 1,704 | 6.1% | |||||||
UKIP | 445 | 1.6% | |||||||
Solidarity | 198 | 0.7% | |||||||
Scottish Christian | 137 | 0.5% | |||||||
RISE | 122 | 0.4% | |||||||
Communist | 64 | 0.2% | |||||||
National Front | 48 | 0.2% | |||||||
Libertarian | 35 | 0.1% | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 27,904 | ||||||||
SNP hold | Majority | 8,828 | 31.7% | 5.5% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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SNP | Joe FitzPatrick | 14,089 | 57.6 | +12 | |
Labour | Richard McCready | 7,684 | 31.4 | -5.7 | |
Conservative | Colin Stewart | 1,625 | 6.6 | -0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Allison Burns | 1,063 | 4.3 | -5.8 | |
Majority | 6,405 | 26.2 | |||
Turnout | 24,461 | 45.8 | |||
SNP hold | Swing | 8.9% | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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SNP | Joe FitzPatrick | 11,416 | 45.5 | ||
Labour | Jill Shimi | 9,303 | 37.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Michael Charlton | 2,553 | 10.2 | ||
Conservative | Belinda Don | 1,793 | 7.2 | ||
Majority | 2,113 | 8.4 | |||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | 6.1 | |||
Scottish Parliament election, 2003:Dundee West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Kate MacLean | 8,234 | 32.93 | - 4.64 | |
SNP | Irene McGugan | 7,168 | 28.67 | - 8.48 | |
Independent | Ian Borthwick | 4,715 | 18.86 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Shona Ferrier | 1,878 | 7.51 | - 2.80 | |
Scottish Socialist | Jim McFarland | 1,501 | 6.00 | + 2.53 | |
Conservative | Victoria Roberts | 1,376 | 5.50 | - 6.00 | |
Scottish Peoples Alliance | Morag MacLechan | 131 | 0.52 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,066 | 4.26 | + 3.84 | ||
Turnout | 25,003 | 48.66 | - 3.53 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Scottish Parliament election, 1999:Dundee West | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Kate MacLean | 10,925 | 37.57 | N/A | |
SNP | Calum Cashley | 10,804 | 37.15 | N/A | |
Conservative | Gordon Buchan | 3,345 | 11.50 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Dick | 2,998 | 10.31 | N/A | |
Scottish Socialist | Jim McFarlane | 1,010 | 3.47 | N/A | |
Majority | 121 | 0.42 | N/A | ||
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||