🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland

70,329 electors

Active Seat

Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy

Current MP

Melanie Ward

🗳️ Election History

Elections

56.8%

Avg Turnout

Times Changed

2024

Current Party Since

Labour Melanie Ward Hold

Majority 7,248

Turnout 56.8%

Total Votes 40,814

✓ Melanie Ward

Labour

18,662

↑16.2pp

Lesley Backhouse

Scottish National Party

11,414

↓8.4pp

Jonathan Gray

Conservative

3,203

↓14.4pp

Sonia Davidson

Reform UK

3,128

↑5.7pp

Fraser Graham

Liberal Democrats

1,593

↓2.6pp

Mags Hall

—

1,556

↑0.3pp

Neale Hanvey

Alba Party

1,132

—

Calum Paul

—

126

—

👥 Demographics

▲▼ changes shown vs 2021 Census

📊 Age

65 and over

22.2% ▲0.0pp

50 to 64

22.1%

0 to 17

19.1%

35 to 49

18.6%

25 to 34

11.2%

18 to 24

6.8%

🌍 Ethnicity

White

96.0%

Asian or Asian British

2.2%

Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups

0.8%

Other

0.6%

Black, African, Caribbean or Black British

0.4%

📊 Age

65 and over

22.2%

45 to 64

22.1%

Under 18

19.1%

30 to 44

18.6%

18 to 29

18.0%

⛪ Religion

No religion

61.3%

Christian

30.2%

Not answered

5.9%

Muslim

1.3%

Other religion

0.6%

Hindu

0.2%

Sikh

0.2%

Buddhist

0.2%

Jewish

0.0%

Previous MPs

Historical representatives of this constituency

📚

No previous MPs found

No historic membership records available for this constituency