The placeConstituency · Scotland · Electorate 72,824 · 2023 boundaries

Dunfermline and Dollar.

Labour Party MP Graeme Downie holds the seat on 45.7% of the vote.

Member of ParliamentGraeme Downie · Labour Party
CouncilFife
Boundary set2023
ONS codeS14000076
Electorate · 2024
72.8k
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
45.7%
Labour Party · +18.5pp over SNP
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
2 Jun 2026

Graeme Downie has spent much of 2025-26 pursuing local economic wins -- securing £3 million for a Rosyth-Europe ferry service, backing a £5 million defence innovation hub at Rosyth, and championing £40 million in Fife funding. He has challenged the SNP directly over what he called "misinformation" about Rosyth investment prospects, and co-founded a Living Standards Coalition focused on constituent cost-of-living pressures. These are among the most prominent things he has done in Westminster terms: concrete, constituency-focused campaigns rather than nationally visible parliamentary manoeuvres.

His parliamentary record is steady and loyal. He has voted with Labour on every recorded division -- a 100% party-line rate -- though his participation sits at 66%, below the Commons average. His speeches concentrate heavily on economy and jobs, defence, and energy, which tracks both his constituency's Rosyth dockyard interests and his seat on the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee. He scores notably low on pro-parliamentary-scrutiny measures (7%) and consistently backs the government against Lords amendments, which fits a pattern of strong executive loyalty in the current Parliament.

Two deviations from Labour's average are worth noting. He is less aligned than his party on criminal justice reform (-19 percentage points) and sits closer to the anti-assisted-dying position than the Labour average, having voted more cautiously on end-of-life autonomy questions. News coverage over the past 90 days is modestly positive on economic and defence issues but more mixed on energy topics. No rebel votes have been recorded and no significant controversies appear in available data.

45.7%
Lab vote · 2024 GE
1
Council overlapping the seat
4
Wards · 14 councillors
§ 01The local picture — wards.4 wards · 14 councillors

Ward-level direction-of-travel: who controls what, who flipped recently, who holds the line.

WardLatest winnerVotesCouncilLast cycle
Dunfermline Central(4 seats)Boubaker-Calder · Glen · Muir · Leishman5,685Fife IndMay 2022
Dunfermline South(4 seats)Hilton · Calder · Wardlaw · Anis-Miah5,636Fife IndMay 2022
Rosyth(3 seats)Verrecchia · Jackson · Goodall3,185Fife IndMay 2022
West Fife Coastal Villages(3 seats)Young · Downie · Steele3,800Fife IndMay 2022

Source · Democracy Club · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

§ 03Demographics.Census 2021 · vs national avg

Headline indicators.

IndicatorLocalNationalΔ

Ethnicity.

Source · Census 2021

Population by age & sexCensus 2021 · 18 bands · click to expand
Male 48.9% Female 51.1% Median seat
MaleAgeFemale
85+
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
16-19
10-15
5-9
0-4

Source · Census 2021 (ONS) · % of usual residents; tick marks the median seat per band

§ 04Local economy.Income · tax · businesses · schools
Median income
£29,000
HMRC SPI · 2024
Mean income
£35,700
HMRC SPI · 2024
Businesses
2,265
VAT/PAYE-registered

Income tax contribution.

Total income tax£297m
Taxpayers54,000
Median per taxpayer£3,090
Mean per taxpayer£5,490

Source · HMRC SPI · ±8% confidence

Where the money flows back in.

For council finance & suppliers

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§ 06Election history.1 contest · created on 2023 boundaries

2024 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Graeme DownieWONLab20,33645.7
Naz Anis-MiahSNP12,09527.2
Thomas HealdCon3,2977.4
Lauren Buchanan-QuigleyLD3,1817.1
Udo van den BrockRef2,8876.5
Ryan BlackadderInd2,0784.7
Graham HadleyInd3240.7
Danny SmithInd2510.6
George MortonInd880.2

Turnout 44,537

Prior contests.

Created on the 2023 boundary review. 2024 General Election was the first contest on these boundaries.

Sources, methods & last update
Method The dispatch paragraphs are AI-generated from the public sources listed below. Every figure links to its source. If we’re wrong, please tell us — corrections within 48 hours.
BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2023 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
DemographicsONS · Nomis · Census 2021
National avg over 575 seats
Income & taxHMRC SPI
±8% confidence
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission