Dundee City West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Dundee West (UK Parliament constituency) or Dundee West (Scottish Parliament constituency).

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
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

	Member	Party
1999	Kate Maclean	Labour
2003	Kate Maclean	Labour
2007	Joe FitzPatrick	Scottish National Party

As Dundee City West

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Joe FitzPatrick	Scottish National Party
	2016	Joe FitzPatrick	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Dundee City West^[1]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Y 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%

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Dundee City West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	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%

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Dundee City West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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
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
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

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Lothian	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Mid Scotland and Fife	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West

South Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale, and Lauderdale

West Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

References

↑ http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=71076&sID=28053

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