Dundee_City_West_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)
Dundee City West (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament
Dundee City West (Gaelic: Baile Dhùn Dè an Iar) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the Dundee City council area. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. It is one of ten constituencies in the North East Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the ten constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
| Dundee City West | |
|---|---|
| Burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
Dundee City West shown within the North East Scotland electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Population | 77,779 (2019)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2011 |
| Party | Scottish National Party |
| MSP | Joe FitzPatrick |
| Council area | Dundee City |
| Created from | Dundee West |
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The constituency was created for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, and largely replaced the previous seat of Dundee West. Since creation it has been held by Joe FitzPatrick of the Scottish National Party; FitzPatrick had previously served as the member for Dundee West since the 2007 Scottish Parliament election.
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, Aberdeenshire, Angus, the Dundee City council area and part of Moray.
Dundee City council area is represented by two constituencies in the Scottish Parliament: Dundee City East and Dundee City West.
A 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, the boundaries of the Westminster (House of Commons) constituency were subject to some alteration, and now no longer correspond to Holyrood constituencies. The current Holyrood boundaries were introduced for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election with the former Dundee West constituency being renamed and redrawn slightly to now include the 'Hebrides' neighbourhood at Claverhouse just west of the A90 road, and the edge-of-town housing developments at Dykes of Gray and the former Liff Hospital.[2][3] The constituency consists of the following electoral wards:[4]
- In full: Strathmartine, Lochee, West End
- In part: Coldside, Maryfield, North East (shared with Dundee City East)
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
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| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Joe FitzPatrick[lower-alpha 1] | 19,818 | 61.6 |  3.8 |
16,730 | 51.9 |  2.3 | |
| Labour | Mercedes Villalba[lower-alpha 2] | 6,899 | 21.5 | 4.6 |
5,791 | 18.0 | 3.8 | |
| Conservative | Tess White[lower-alpha 2] | 3,327 | 10.3 | 0.1 |
3,801 | 11.8 | 0.2 | |
| Scottish Green | 2,862 | 8.9 | 2.8 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Daniel Coleman | 1,269 | 3.9 | 0.3 |
903 | 2.8 | 0.3 | |
| Alba | 859 | 2.7 | New | |||||
| TUSC | Jim McFarlane | 432 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
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| All for Unity | 259 | 0.8 | New | |||||
| Independent Green Voice | 225 | 0.7 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 206 | 0.6 | New | |||||
| Restore Scotland | Ewan Gurr | 410 | 1.3 | New | 124 | 0.4 | New | |
| Reform UK | 83 | 0.3 | New | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 78 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Libertarian | 61 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 60 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| UKIP | 44 | 0.1 | 1.5 | |||||
| Independent | Laura Marshall | 20 | 0.1 | New | ||||
| Renew | 19 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Independent | Geoffrey Farquharson | 12 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Majority | 12,919 | 40.1 | 8.3 |
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| Valid Votes | 32,155 | 32,137 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 126 | 121 | ||||||
| Turnout | 32,281 | 56.9 | 5.1 |
32,258 | 56.9 | 5.1 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | |||||||
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2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Joe FitzPatrick[lower-alpha 1] | 16,070 | 57.8 | 0.2 |
15,092 | 54.2 | 1.2 | |
| Labour | Jenny Marra | 7,242 | 26.1 | 5.3 |
6,055 | 21.8 | 5.6 | |
| Conservative | Nicola Ross | 2,826 | 10.2 | 3.6 |
3,232 | 11.6 | 5.2 | |
| Scottish Green | 1,704 | 6.1 | 2.6 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Daniel Coleman | 1,008 | 3.6 | 0.7 |
707 | 2.5 | 0.5 | |
| TUSC | Jim McFarlane | 642 | 2.3 | New | ||||
| UKIP | 445 | 1.6 | 1.1 | |||||
| Solidarity | 198 | 0.7 | 0.3 | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 137 | 0.5 | 0.3 | |||||
| RISE | 122 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| Communist | 64 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| National Front | 48 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||
| Libertarian | 35 | 0.1 | New | |||||
| Majority | 8,828 | 31.7 | 5.5 |
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| Valid Votes | 27,788 | 27,839 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 115 | 65 | ||||||
| Turnout | 27,903 | 51.8 | 6.1 |
27,904 | 51.8 | 5.9 | ||
| SNP hold | Swing | 2.8 |
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
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| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Joe FitzPatrick[lower-alpha 1] | 14,089 | 57.6 | N/A | 13,052 | 53.0 | N/A | |
| Labour | Richard McCready | 7,684 | 31.4 | N/A | 6,734 | 27.4 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Colin Stewart | 1,625 | 6.6 | N/A | 1,586 | 6.4 | N/A | |
| Scottish Green | 867 | 3.5 | N/A | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Allison Burns | 1,063 | 4.3 | N/A | 749 | 3.0 | N/A | |
| All-Scotland Pensioners Party | 444 | 1.8 | N/A | |||||
| Socialist Labour | 232 | 0.9 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 199 | 0.8 | N/A | |||||
| BNP | 188 | 0.8 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 156 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
| UKIP | 129 | 0.5 | N/A | |||||
| Solidarity | 92 | 0.4 | N/A | |||||
| National Front | 72 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Angus Independents | 13 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Others | 78 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Majority | 6,405 | 26.2 | N/A | |||||
| Valid Votes | 24,461 | 24,591 | ||||||
| Invalid Votes | 144 | 121 | ||||||
| Turnout | 24,605 | 45.7 | N/A | 24,712 | 45.9 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new seat) | ||||||||
Notes
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- "First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries Final Report" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. May 2010. p. 105. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- "Constituencies A-Z: Dundee City West". BBC News. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- "Scottish Parliamentary Elections - 6th May 2021". Dundee City Council. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- "SPE2016 - North East Scotland Regional List results by constituency" (PDF). Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- "Dundee City East - Scottish Parliament constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- "2011 Election analysis (Excel 2.37MB)". Scottish Parliament. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
- "Results and turnout at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
- "Dundee City West constituency map" (PDF). Boundaries Scotland. Retrieved 7 July 2021.