Lib Dems Storm to Victory in Dunfermline
February 10, 2006 5:16 PM
The Liberal Democrats have won a sensational victory in the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election. There was a massive swing of 16% from the Labour Party to the Liberal Democrats (and 9% from Conservative to Lib Dem), just nine months after the General Election. The Liberal Democrats turned a Labour majority of 11,562 into a Liberal Democrat majority of 1,800. This victory was the first ever Liberal Democrat gain from the Labour Party in a Scottish by-election.
The full result was:
Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat) - 12,391
Carrie Ruxton (Conservative) - 2,702
Catherine Stihler (Labour) - 10,591
Ian Borland (UK Independence Party) - 208
Douglas Chapman (Scottish National Party) - 7,261
John McAllion (Scottish Socialist Party) - 537
Dick Rodgers (Common Good) - 103
James Hargreaves (Scottish Christian Party) - 411
Thomas Minogue (Abolish Forth Bridge Tolls Party) - 374
The result has stunned Labour and relegates David Cameron's Conservative Party to fourth in his first major electoral test since becoming Conservative leader. The result was the worst Conservative Parliamentary by-election result for 8 years (while Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard led the Party).
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