Latest headlines
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Victory for the SNP with 63 seats - two short of a majority
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Conservatives are the second largest party on 31 seats - but Labour on 24 lost 13 seats
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Scottish Greens are the fourth largest party with six seats, ahead of the Lib Dems who won five
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Scoreboard
| Party | Candidates | Votes | % | Net percentage change in seats |
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Party
SNP Scottish National Party |
Candidates Joe Fitzpatrick | Votes 16,070 | 57.8% | Net percentage change in seats +0.2 |
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LAB Scottish Labour |
Candidates Jenny Marra | Votes 7,242 | 26.1% | Net percentage change in seats −5.4 |
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CON Scottish Conservatives |
Candidates Nicola Ross | Votes 2,826 | 10.2% | Net percentage change in seats +3.5 |
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LD Scottish Lib Dems |
Candidates Daniel Coleman | Votes 1,008 | 3.6% | Net percentage change in seats −0.7 |
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TUSC TUSC |
Candidates Jim McFarlane | Votes 642 | 2.3% | Net percentage change in seats +2.3 |
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Change compared with 2011 |
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Turnout and Majority
Scottish National Party Majority
8,828Turnout
51.6%Constituency Profile
Dundee was once famed as a city of "jute, jam and journalism", but it is being remodelled as the "city of discovery" in order to attract more tourism and inward investment. The jute mills are gone, but the constituency remains a busy industrial area, with light engineering a source of employment. The city is also marked out for its role in the video games industry.
The area is dominated by large housing estates, but there are also middle-class pockets around the hill known as Dundee Law and the west end. The seat also contains the bulk of the student quarter serving the city's two universities, along with Ninewells Hospital and Dundee Airport.
Labour won the seat with a narrow majority in the first Holyrood election of 1999 and retained it in 2003. However, the SNP's Joe Fitzpatrick won the 2007 poll and retained the seat in 2011.