Riding profile

Dunfermline and Dollar

UK constituency — Scotland · Mixed · scotland

The question

Dunfermline and Dollar: who wins this toss-up?

Editorial read

Dunfermline and Dollar, a mixed constituency in Scotland, elected a member with Labour in the previous cycle, with a 19-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the SNP ahead at 26% vote share, against 22% for Reform UK, and the race could swing.

Sitting member

Graeme Downie

Sits with Labour

Since
2024-07-04
Parliament
59th

Current forecast

SNP

Toss-up

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
4.2
P(close race)
93%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • SNP 25.9%
  • Reform UK 21.9%
  • Labour 21.7%
  • Lib Dems 9.3%
  • Green 9.0%
  • Conservative 7.0%
  • Other 5.1%

In context

How this riding stacks up

SNP Reform UK Labour Lib Dems
HereDunfermline and Dollar 25.9%21.9%21.7%9.3%
National averageUnited Kingdom 2.5% +23.3 25.3% −3.4 21.7% 11.6% −2.3

Nationwide averages computed across the 650 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Previous election · UK 2024

Won by
Labour
Margin
18.5 pts
Margin shift vs current projection
-14.3 pts

Detailed result · UK 2024

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Graeme Downie Elected Labour 20,336 45.7
Naz Anis-Miah SNP 12,095 27.2
Thomas Heald Conservative 3,297 7.4
Lauren Buchanan-Quigley Lib Dems 3,181 7.1
Udo van den Brock Reform UK 2,887 6.5
Ryan Blackadder Green 2,078 4.7
Graham Hadley Other 324 0.7
Danny Smith Other 251 0.6
George Morton Other 88 0.2

Demographics

Who lives here

Employment rate
76.5%

Data source : ONS mid-2022 population + Jan 2026 labour market

Last model run
Cycle
uk_2029