Dunfermline Central (ward)

Location of the ward

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

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)

Election results

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Fife Council election

Dunfermline Central - 4 seats

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%

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2019 by-election

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.

Dunfermline Central By-election (14 November 2019)

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%)

2017 election

2017 Fife Council election

Dunfermline Central - 4 seats

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%)

2012 election

2012 Fife Council election

Dunfermline Central - 4 seats

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%)

2007 election

2007 Fife Council election

Dunfermline Central

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	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