Dunfermline & Dollar.

Dunfermline and Dollar is a Fife seat of roughly 95,600 people, built around Dunfermline itself, the historic burgh raised to city status, with Rosyth and a scattering of West Fife coastal and former-mining villages making up the remainder. The median age, at 43, is close to the national middle, and the constituency reads as one dominant town ringed by smaller settlements rather than a rural-scattered patchwork. All local services run through Fife, the single Scottish council authority covering the area, which draws four wards from within this seat. That gives the place a clear civic centre of gravity in Dunfermline and a council whose attention is plainly fixed there.

The ward picture, last contested in full in 2022, leans towards the Scottish National Party, which took the most-recent contest in seven of the fourteen ward seats counted, ahead of Labour on four, the Liberal Democrats on two and the Conservatives on one. That municipal balance sits awkwardly against the parliamentary result. At the 2024 general election, the first fought on these boundaries, Labour won the seat on 45.7 per cent, with the SNP runner-up on 27.2 per cent -- a margin of some eighteen points. Graeme Downie has held the seat for Labour since that contest, registering no likely-whipped dissent in recent months and speaking most often on the economy, defence and energy.

The seat therefore looks more contested than its 2024 margin alone would suggest, with a Labour Westminster majority overlaying a council map where the SNP remains the larger local force. Recent local reporting has had a markedly civic, administrative character, dominated by the practicalities of Dunfermline's new city status, community funding and roadworks rather than political conflict. On the figures available, the balance between a comfortable parliamentary result and a more divided ward base leaves the constituency better described as in flux than settled, with no single party holding it at every level.