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The Dunfermline and West Fife UK ( or Westminster ) constituency, created in 2005 when the previous seats Dunfermline East and Dunfermline West were abolished, elects a Member of Parliament ( MP ) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system.
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Dunfermline and West
North Queensferry forms part of the Dunfermline and West Fife Westminster constituency, currently held by Thomas Docherty MP for the Labour Party.
Other concert halls that bear Carnegie's name include 420-seat Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia ; 1928-seat Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the main site of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh ; 1022-seat Carnegie Music Hall annexed to Pittsburgh suburb Homestead's Carnegie library ; and Carnegie Hall, a 540-seat venue, in Andrew Carnegie's native Dunfermline.
Today, Dunfermline is the main centre for the West Fife area, and is also considered to be a dormitory town for Edinburgh.
The royal burgh merged into Dunfermline District, which was one of three districts within the Fife region serving the town and West Fife from Kincardine to Aberdour.
Previously, the seat had been held by Willie Rennie for the Liberal Democrats since the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election in 2006.
Lord Dunfermline married Mary Anne, daughter of Egerton Leigh, of West Hall, in High Legh, on 14 June 1802.
Inverkeithing forms part of the Dunfermline and West Fife Westminster constituency, currently held by Thomas Docherty MP for the Labour Party.
In a House of Commons debate on 9 December 2010, Thomas Docherty, the Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife said " On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker.
She was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Dunfermline West from 1992 to 2005, and then for Dunfermline and West Fife from 2005 until her death after a long series of illnesses.
Her death prompted the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election, held on 9 February 2006, in which her former seat was won by Willie Rennie for the Liberal Democrats.
Moray MP Angus Robertson and Dunfermline and West Fife MP Thomas Docherty are both making representations to the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond.
Dunfermline and Fife
The second son of James VI of Scotland and Anne of Denmark, Charles was born in Dunfermline Palace, Fife, on 19 November 1600.
* David II of Scotland ( 1324 – 1371 ) King of Scots, son of King Robert the Bruce by his second wife, Elizabeth de Burgh ( d. 1327 ), was born at Dunfermline Palace, Fife.
Murray was appointed Guardian at Dunfermline during the winter of 1335 – 6 while he was besieging Cupar Castle in Fife.
Dunfermline (;, ) is a town and former Royal Burgh in Fife, Scotland, on high ground 3 miles ( 4. 8 km ) from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.
According to a 2008 estimate, Dunfermline has a population of 46, 430, making it the second-biggest settlement in Fife.
Fife Council, the unitary local authority for Dunfermline is based in Glenrothes who are the executive, deliberative and legislative body responsible for local governance.
Dunfermline has retained some importance as an administrative centre with the Council's principle west Fife office based at New City House.
The Dunfermline Scottish Parliament ( or Holyrood ) constituency created in 2011, following a review of Scottish Parliament constituency boundaries is one of nine within the Mid Scotland and Fife electorical region.
Dunfermline and UK
For the UK Parliament, Rosyth is located in the Dunfermline and West Fife Westminster constituency, currently held by Thomas Docherty of the Labour Party.
Stagecoach East Scotland is an operating region of Stagecoach UK Bus, with its regional base in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland and including the legal companies Bluebird Buses Ltd, Fife Scottish Buses Ltd, Stagecoach ( Scotland ) Ltd, Strathtay Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, JW Coaches Ltd and Rennie's of Dunfermline Ltd.
Dunfermline and Westminster
In that same year the SNP presence at Westminster was boosted when Labour MP for Dunfermline West, Dick Douglas defected to the SNP, citing his dissatisfaction with the way Labour had handled the Poll Tax issue as one reason.
Dunfermline and constituency
For the purposes of the Scottish Parliament, Dunfermline forms part of the Dunfermline constituency.
At EU level, Dunfermline is part of the pan-Scotland European Parliament constituency which elects seven Members of the European Parliament ( MEP ) s using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
By the time of the 1983 General Election the constituency boundaries had been revised, so Douglas stood as the Labour and Co-operative candidate for the new Dunfermline West constituency.
He was defeated in the 1918 general election, when he stood as an " Independent Democrat " in the new Dunfermline Burghs constituency.
It was created for the 2005 general election from most of the old Kirkcaldy constituency and parts of Dunfermline East constituency.
Dunfermline and West Fife is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Rachel Squire ( Labour ) was the MP for Dunfermline West constituency from 1992 until the major revision of the composition of Scottish parliamentary constituencies for the 2005 general election.
Gordon Brown was MP for the neighbouring Dunfermline East constituency from which some territory was given to Dunfermline and West Fife.
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