Dunfermline East | |
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Former Burgh constituency | |
for the House of Commons | |
Major settlements | Cowdenbeath |
1983–2005 | |
Number of members | One |
Replaced by | Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath Dunfermline & West Fife Glenrothes |
Created from | Central Fife Dunfermline |
Dunfermline East was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post voting system.
The constituency was created for the 1983 general election from parts of the seats of Central Fife and Dunfermline. It was abolished for the 2005 general election as part of a major revision in the composition of parliamentary constituencies in Scotland.
Most of Dunfermline East and its neighbouring constituency Kirkcaldy now make up the new seat of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. The remaining parts of the seat were moved to the new Dunfermline and West Fife and Glenrothes constituencies.
The constituency's name was something of a misnomer as it never actually included any part of the town of Dunfermline. Cowdenbeath was the largest town in the constituency.
The constituency's only MP was Gordon Brown of the Labour Party, who was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1992 to 1997 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007, when he became Prime Minister.
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1983 | Gordon Brown | Labour |
General Election 1983: Dunfermline East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Gordon Brown | 18,515 | 51.5 | ||
SDP–Liberal Alliance | D Harcus | 7,214 | 20.1 | ||
Conservative | C Shenton | 6,764 | 18.8 | ||
SNP | G Hunter | 2,573 | 7.2 | ||
Communist | A Maxwell | 864 | 2.4 | ||
Majority | 11,301 | 31.4 | |||
Turnout | 72.0 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
General Election 1987: Dunfermline East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Gordon Brown | 25,381 | 64.5 | +13.0 | |
Conservative | C Shenton | 5,792 | 14.8 | -4.0 | |
SDP–Liberal Alliance | E Harris | 4,122 | 10.5 | -9.6 | |
SNP | A McGarry | 3,901 | 10.0 | +2.8 | |
Majority | 19,589 | 49.7 | |||
Turnout | 76.6 | +4.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +8.5 |
General Election 1992: Dunfermline East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Gordon Brown | 23,692 | 62.4 | -3.1 | |
Conservative | M Tennant | 6,248 | 16.5 | +1.7 | |
SNP | J Lloyd | 5,746 | 15.1 | +5.1 | |
Liberal Democrat | T Little | 2,262 | 6.0 | -4.5 | |
Majority | 17,444 | 45.9 | |||
Turnout | 75.6 | -1.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.4 |
General Election 1997: Dunfermline East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Gordon Brown | 24,441 | 66.8 | +4.4 | |
SNP | J Ramage | 5,690 | 15.6 | +0.5 | |
Conservative | I Mitchell | 3,656 | 10.0 | -6.5 | |
Liberal Democrat | J Tolson | 2,164 | 5.9 | -0.1 | |
Referendum Party | T Dunsmore | 632 | 1.7 | +1.7 | |
Majority | 18,751 | 51.2 | |||
Turnout | 69.6 | -7.0 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.0 |
General Election 2001: Dunfermline East | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Gordon Brown | 19,487 | 64.8 | -2.0 | |
SNP | Johnny Mellon | 4,424 | 14.7 | -0.8 | |
Conservative | Stuart Randall | 2,838 | 9.4 | -0.6 | |
Liberal Democrat | John Mainland | 2,281 | 7.6 | +1.7 | |
Scottish Socialist | Andrew Jackson | 770 | 2.6 | N/A | |
UKIP | Tom Dunsmore | 286 | 1.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 15,063 | 50.1 | |||
Turnout | 30,086 | 57.0 | -13.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.6 |
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by Rushcliffe |
Constituency represented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer 1997–2005 |
Succeeded by Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath |