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Dunfermline Central is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects four Councillors.
Dunfermline Central is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Lizz Mogg (SNP) | Willie Sullivan (Labour) | Jackie McKenna (Liberal Democrats) | Joe Rosiejak (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
| 2012 | Neale Hanvey (SNP) | Jim Leishman (Labour) | Bob Young (Labour) | |||||
| 2017 | Jean Hall Muir (SNP) | Gary Haldane (Labour) | Alan Craig (Conservative) | |||||
| 2019 | Derek Glen (SNP) | |||||||
| 2022 | Aude Boubaker-Calder (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Aude Boubaker-Calder | 24.7 | 1,970 | ||||||||
| SNP | Derek Glen (incumbent) | 20.1 | 1,603 | ||||||||
| SNP | Jean Hall Muir (incumbent) | 13.3 | 1,057 | 1,075 | 1,081 | 1,081 | 1,119 | 1,388 | 1,405 | 1,486 | |
| Labour | Jim Leishman (incumbent) | 13.2 | 1,055 | 1,139 | 1,139 | 1,155 | 1,171 | 1,243 | 1,473 | 2,367 | |
| Labour | Garry Haldane (incumbent) | 11.4 | 909 | 977 | 978 | 983 | 992 | 1,056 | 1,216 | ||
| Conservative | Malcolm Macaulay | 9.4 | 752 | 841 | 841 | 856 | 861 | 878 | |||
| Scottish Green | Lewis Campbell | 6.0 | 478 | 519 | 520 | 526 | 538 | ||||
| Alba | Leanne Tervit | 1.2 | 94 | 95 | 95 | 101 | |||||
| Scottish Family | Gary Pratt | 0.7 | 53 | 56 | 56 | ||||||
| Electorate: 16,854 Valid: 7,971 Spoilt: 100 Quota: 1,595 Turnout: 47.9% | |||||||||||
In September 2019 Dunfermline Central Conservative Cllr Alan Craig resigned his seat. A by-election was held on 14 November 2019 and Derek Glen gained the seat for the SNP.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Derek Glen | 33.16 | 1,526 | 1,528 | 1,628 | 1,761 | 1,798 | 2,297 | |
| Conservative | Chloe Dodds | 24.82 | 1,142 | 1,150 | 1,150 | 1,202 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Aude Boubaker-Calder | 22.82 | 1,050 | 1,053 | 1,117 | 1,343 | 1,796 | ||
| Labour | Michael Boyd | 13.49 | 621 | 624 | 656 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Fiona McOwan | 5.11 | 235 | 237 | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | Keith Chamberlain | 0.61 | 28 | ||||||
| Electorate: 15,698 Quota: 2,302 Turnout: 4,602 (29.5%) | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Conservative | Alan Craig††† | 24.1 | 1,768 | |||||||||
| SNP | Jean Hall Muir | 18.5 | 1,359 | 1,363.3 | 1,364.3 | 1,411.3 | 1,457.1 | 1,516.1 | ||||
| Labour | Jim Leishman (incumbent) | 15.1 | 1,115 | 1,154.6 | 1,157.6 | 1,195.6 | 1,370.7 | 1,645.2 | ||||
| Labour | Garry Haldane | 11.4 | 832 | 871.9 | 872.9 | 890.1 | 977.3 | 1,067.04 | 1,181.7 | 1,182.7 | 1,498.4 | |
| SNP | Neale Hanvey (incumbent) | 11.2 | 821 | 822.4 | 823.4 | 867.7 | 890.6 | 960.9 | 972.8 | 1,020.4 | ||
| Independent | Doug Hay | 8.9 | 655 | 716.7 | 730.4 | 756.6 | 888.6 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Lauren Jones | 6.9 | 509 | 583.04 | 586.9 | 633.6 | ||||||
| Scottish Green | Kerstin Romano | 3.2 | 238 | 245.4 | 249.7 | |||||||
| Independent | Deek Jackson | 0.37 | 27 | 31.5 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 15,564 Valid: 7,324 Spoilt: 87 Quota: 1,465 Turnout: 7,417 (47.7%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Labour | Jim Leishman | 27.96 | 1,608 | |||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Joe Rosiejak (incumbent) | 17.88 | 1,028 | 1,072.3 | 1,243.2 | |||||
| SNP | Neale Hanvey | 17.32 | 996 | 1,019.9 | 1,032.2 | 1,037.9 | 1,110.2 | 1,117.5 | 1,626.1 | |
| Labour | Bob Young | 12.99 | 747 | 1,038.3 | 1,070.9 | 1,087.9 | 1,216.8 | |||
| SNP | Lizz Mogg(incumbent) | 9.2 | 529 | 557.4 | 570.9 | 582.2 | 641.2 | 648.2 | ||
| Independent | Jim Gallagher | 7.34 | 422 | 445.3 | 541.3 | 564.8 | ||||
| Conservative | David Ross | 7.32 | 421 | 431.2 | ||||||
| Electorate: 14,864 Valid: 5,751 Spoilt: 64 Quota: 1,151 Turnout: 5,815 (38.69%) | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Willie Sullivan | 1,881 | 23.9 | 1 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jackie McKenna | 1,774 | 22.6 | 2 | 1 | |
| SNP | Lizz Mogg | 1,574 | 20.0 | 3 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Joe Rosiejak | 1,488 | 19.0 | 4 | 2 | |
| Conservative | Lisa Marie Callaghan | 832 | 10.6 | |||
| Scottish Green | Graeme Allan | 313 | 4.0 | |||
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