Dunfermline North (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Dunfermline North is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects three Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		David Mogg (SNP)		Bill McCulloch (Labour)		Jim Burke (Liberal Democrats)
2012	Helen Law (Labour)			William Campbell (Labour)
2015		Ian Ferguson (SNP)
2017				Gavin Ellis (Conservative)
2022	Auxi Barrera (SNP)	Gordon Pryde (Labour)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Fife Council election

Dunfermline North - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Gordon Pryde	28.5	1,627
	SNP	Auxi Barrera	23.6	1,350	1,360	1,365	1,368	1,509
	Conservative	Gavin Ellis (incumbent)	17.8	1,017	1,049	1,059	1,084	1,107	1,108	1,365	1,474
	SNP	Craig McIvor	15.4	882	896	897	903	973	1,042	1,120
	Liberal Democrats	Caroline McIlwraith	6.4	363	421	432	448	535	538
	Scottish Green	Mags Hall	5.9	338	354	372	387
	Scottish Family	Karen Smith	1.4	80	86	93
	TUSC	Dave Edler	0.9	53	66
Electorate: 12,503  Valid: 5,710  Spoilt: 79  Quota: 1,428  Turnout: 46.3%

Source: ^{[2] [3]}

2017 election

2017 Fife Council election

Dunfermline North - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Conservative	Gavin Ellis	23.46%	1,264	1,274	1,432
	SNP	Ian Ferguson (incumbent)	22.01%	1,186	1,216	1,240	1,242.1	1909.5
	Labour	Helen Law (incumbent)	16.02%	863	880	1,016	1,032.8	1,053.8	1,169.5	1,971.5
	Labour	Michael Boyd	13.96%	752	774	850	870.3	893.4	994.8
	SNP	Fiona Fisher	12.29%	662	714	746	746.9
	Liberal Democrats	Bryn Jones	8.5%	458	503
	Scottish Green	Mags Hall	3.77%	203
Electorate: 11,908  Valid: 5,388  Spoilt: 87  Quota: 1,348  Turnout: 5,475 (46%)

2015 by-election

A by-election was held after David Mogg resigned.

Dunfermline North by-election (26 November 2015) - 1 seat ^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Ian Ferguson	43.5%	1,056	1,062	1,083	1,122	1,144	1,337
	Labour	Joe Long	29.6%	719	722	733	805	912
	Conservative	James Reekie	12.5%	304	319	321	389
	Liberal Democrats	James Calder	9.5%	230	235	253
	Scottish Green	Lewis Campbell	2.6%	63	72
	UKIP	Chloanne Dodds	2.4%	58
Electorate: 10,166  Valid: 2,430  Spoilt: 20  Quota: 1,216  Turnout: 2,450 (24.06%)

2012 election

2012 Fife Council election

Dunfermline North - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	SNP	David Mogg (incumbent) †11	31.55	1,204
	Labour	Helen Law	26.13	997
	Labour	William Campbell	23.17	884	913.3	949.4	988.2
	Liberal Democrats	James Calder	13.57	518	570.9	572.8	722.3
	Conservative	Graeme Whyte	6.63	253	269.9	270.7
Electorate: 10,162  Valid: 3,816  Spoilt: 54  Quota: 955  Turnout: 3,862 (37.55%)

2007 election

2007 Fife Council election

Dunfermline North

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Liberal Democrats	Jim Burke	1,451	27.5	1	1
	Labour	Bill McCulloch	1,254	23.8	2	4
	SNP	David Mogg	1,236	23.4	3	6
	Health Concern	Gill Cunningham	690	13.0
	Conservative	Paul Callaghan	313	5.9
	Labour	Robert McGregor	272	5.2
	Independent	Jason McGilvray	59	11.2

References

1. "Scottish Boundary Commission | The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland". Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
2. "Declaration of Results Report Ward 2 Dunfermline North" (PDF). Fife Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
3. "Candidate votes per stage Ward 2 Dunfermline North" (PDF). Fife Council. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
4. "Dunfermline North by-election, 2015". Scottish Elections. Retrieved 5 May 2017.