Editing Dunfermline (section)

==Governance==
[[File:Dunfermline City Chambers in Dunfermline.jpg|thumb|upright|right|[[Dunfermline City Chambers]]]]

Dunfermline retained [[royal burgh]] status until this was abolished in 1975, under the [[Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973]] in favour of a three-tier [[Regions and districts of Scotland|regions and districts]]. The royal burgh merged into [[Dunfermline (district)|Dunfermline District]], which was one of three districts within the [[Fife]] region serving the town and West Fife from [[Kincardine-on-Forth|Kincardine]] to [[Aberdour]].<ref name="Post-War Years p16">McEwan Bert ''Dunfermline: The Post-War Years'' p.16.</ref> The district council was abolished in 1996, under the [[Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994]],<ref name="Local Government Act 1994">{{cite web|url=http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/Ukpga_19940039_en_1.htm |title=''Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994'', Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website |publisher=OPSI |access-date=18 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301043228/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1994/Ukpga_19940039_en_1.htm |archive-date=1 March 2010 }}</ref> when the region became a [[unitary council area]]. The new unitary [[Fife Council]] adopted the areas of the former districts as council management areas, and created [[area committee]]s to represent each.

Today, Dunfermline is represented by several tiers of elected government. Abbeyview, Bellyeoman, Carnock and Gowkhall, Central Dunfermline, Izatt Avenue & Nethertown and Touch and Garvock Community Councils form the lowest tier of governance, whose statutory role is to communicate local opinion to local and central government.<ref name="list of community councils">{{cite web |url=http://www.fifedirect.org/orgs/index.cfm?fuseaction=list.otherOrgList&typeID=2DF7F351-5B9B-4910-ADBF62D87471ED18&subjectid=C5FE66E7-C9E1-11D5-909E0008C7844101 |title=A list of community councils |publisher=Fife Council |access-date=18 April 2011 |archive-date=26 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726052724/http://www.fifedirect.org/orgs/index.cfm?fuseaction=list.otherOrgList&typeID=2DF7F351-5B9B-4910-ADBF62D87471ED18&subjectid=C5FE66E7-C9E1-11D5-909E0008C7844101 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Fife Council]], the unitary [[local authority]] for Dunfermline, are the [[Executive (government)|executive]], [[Deliberation|deliberative]] and [[legislative]] body responsible for [[local government in Scotland|local governance]].<ref name="devolvedmatters">{{cite web|url=http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/what-we-do/reserved-and-devolved-matters.html |title=Reserved and devolved matters |publisher=Scotland Office |access-date=18 April 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080512213438/http://www.scotlandoffice.gov.uk/what-we-do/reserved-and-devolved-matters.html |archive-date = 12 May 2008}}</ref> Dunfermline has retained some importance as an administrative centre with the council's principal west Fife office based at New City House. Councillor meetings, including the City of Dunfermline Area Committee, take place in the [[Dunfermline City Chambers]].

Dunfermline forms part of the [[United Kingdom constituencies|county constituency]] of [[Dunfermline and West Fife (UK Parliament constituency)|Dunfermline and West Fife]]. The Dunfermline and West Fife UK (or ''Westminster'') constituency, created in 2005 when the previous seats Dunfermline East and Dunfermline West were abolished, elects a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first-past-the-post system. The seat is currently held by [[Douglas Chapman (Scottish politician)|Douglas Chapman]] MP for the [[Scottish National Party]].<ref name="Dunfermline and West Fife">{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/38326.stm |title=Douglas Chapman MP |publisher=BBC |access-date=31 December 2015 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306213159/http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/38326.stm |url-status=dead }}</ref> For the purposes of the [[Scottish Parliament]], Dunfermline forms part of the [[Dunfermline (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Dunfermline]] constituency. The Dunfermline Scottish Parliament (or ''Holyrood'') constituency created in 2011, following a [[Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011|review of Scottish Parliament constituency boundaries]] is one of nine within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.<ref name="Scottish Parliament boundaries">{{cite web |url=http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/other/9780108509070/9780108509070.pdf |title=Report on the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament boundaries |publisher=TSO (The Stationery Office) |pages=172–173 |date=May 2010
|access-date=22 June 2011}}</ref> Each constituency elects one [[Member of the Scottish Parliament]] (MSP) by the first-past-the-post system of election. The seat was won at [[2016 Scottish Parliament election]]s by [[Shirley-Anne Somerville]] of the [[Scottish National Party]].<ref name="Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP">{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.scot/msps/currentmsps/shirley-anne-somerville-msp.aspx |title=Shirley-Ann Somerville MSP for Dunfermline |publisher=Scottish Parliament |access-date=22 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="Dunfermline Scottish Parliament results">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/scotland-constituencies/S16000100 |title=Dunfermline – Scottish Parliament Constituency |work=BBC News |date=2016 |access-date=22 September 2018}}</ref>

Prior to [[Brexit]] in 2020, Dunfermline was part of the pan-Scotland [[Scotland (European Parliament constituency)|European Parliament constituency]] which elected seven [[Members of the European Parliament]] (MEPs) using the [[d'Hondt method]] of [[party-list proportional representation]].<ref name="list of MEPs">{{cite web |url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/search.do?country=GB&zone=Scotland&language=EN |title=List of MEPs for Scotland |publisher=European Parliament |access-date=22 June 2011}}</ref>