Dundee City West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dundee City West
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

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" \|	2011	Joe FitzPatrick	Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" \|	2016	Joe FitzPatrick	Scottish National Party

Election results

2020s

2021 Scottish Parliament election: Dundee City West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel Coleman
	SNP	Joe Fitzpatrick
	Restore Scotland	Ewan Gurr
	TUSC	Jim McFarlane
	Conservative	Tess White
	Labour	Mercedes Villalba

2010s

2016 Scottish Parliament election: Dundee City West^[1]^[2]
Party		Candidate	Constituency			Regional
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Joe FitzPatrick^[a]	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
	Scottish Green					1,704	6.1
	Liberal Democrats	Daniel Coleman	1,008	3.6	0.7	707	2.5
	TUSC	Jim McFarlane	642	2.3	New
	UKIP					449	1.6
	Solidarity					198	0.7
	Scottish Christian					137	0.5
	RISE					122	0.4
	Communist					64	0.2
	National Front					48	0.2
	Scottish Libertarian					35	0.1
Majority			8,828	31.7	5.5
Turnout				51.6	5.8	27,904	51.8
	SNP hold		Swing		2.8
Notes ^ Incumbent member for this constituency

2011 Scottish Parliament election: Dundee City West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Joe FitzPatrick	14,089	57.6	+12.1
	Labour	Richard McCready	7,684	31.4	−5.7
	Conservative	Colin Stewart	1,625	6.6	−0.6
	Liberal Democrats	Allison Burns	1,063	4.3	−5.9
Majority			6,405	26.2	N/A
Turnout			24,461	45.8	N/A
	SNP win (new seat)

References

^ "SPE2016 - North East Scotland Regional List results by constituency". Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
^ "Dundee City East - Scottish Parliament constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 14 October 2020.

[fn1-3] Incumbent member for this constituency

[1] "SPE2016 - North East Scotland Regional List results by constituency". Aberdeen City Council. Retrieved 14 October 2020.

[2] "Dundee City East - Scottish Parliament constituency". BBC News. Retrieved 14 October 2020.

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