Dundee Central | |
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Borough constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Interactive map of boundaries from 2024 | |
![]() Boundary of Dundee Central in Scotland | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Dundee |
Major settlements | Dundee |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2024 |
Member of Parliament | Chris Law (SNP) |
Seats | One |
Created from | Dundee East & Dundee West |
Dundee Central is a constituency of the House of Commons in the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. It is currently represented by Chris Law of the Scottish National Party, who was MP for the predecessor seat of Dundee West from 2015 to 2024.
The constituency comprises the following wards of the City of Dundee:
It covers the whole of the abolished Dundee West constituency, except the small part in Angus Council, together with western parts of the of the former Dundee East constituency, which has largely been replaced by Arbroath and Broughty Ferry. [4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SNP | Chris Law | 15,544 | 40.0 | −16.5 | |
Labour | Richard McCready | 14,869 | 38.3 | +14.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Daniel Coleman | 2,402 | 6.2 | +0.7 | |
Reform UK | Vicky McCann | 2,363 | 6.1 | +3.5 | |
Conservative | Emma Farquhar | 1,569 | 4.0 | −7.1 | |
Alba | Alan Ross | 813 | 2.1 | N/A | |
TUSC | Jim McFarlane | 600 | 1.5 | N/A | |
Scottish Family | Susan Ettle | 357 | 0.9 | N/A | |
Workers Party | Raymond Mennie | 192 | 0.5 | N/A | |
Independent | Niko Omilana | 139 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 675 | 1.7 | |||
Turnout | 39,001 | 52.5 | |||
SNP hold | Swing |