Current MP
Current representation
Melanie Ward
Labour
Female
Previous MP: Neale Hanvey (Alba) - defeated 2024
Constituency view
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
Scotland
Lab gain from SNP
2024 Results
Party breakdown
Labour18,662 - 45.7%
SNP11,414 - 28.0%
Conservative3,203 - 7.8%
Reform3,128 - 7.7%
Lib Dem1,593 - 3.9%
Green1,556 - 3.8%
Other1,258 - 3.1%
Demographics
Demographics
Source: ONS Census 2021 (England, Wales, NI) and Scotland's Census 2022, aggregated to 2024 constituency boundaries by the House of Commons Library.
Ethnic composition
2021
White 96.0%White British 82.2%Asian 2.2%Black, African or Caribbean 0.4%Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups 0.8%Other 0.6%
England & Wales (2021)
White 83.0%White British 74.4%Asian 8.6%Black, African or Caribbean 3.7%Mixed or Multiple ethnic groups 2.7%Other 2.0%
2011 data not available for this constituency.
2001 data not available for this constituency.
1991 data not available for this constituency.
Year-over-year comparison uses broad ethnic groups.
Country of birth
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (2021)
UK 91.9%Other EU 4.6%Other countries 3.5%
England & Wales (2021)
UK 84.0%Other EU 6.0%Other countries 10.1%
2011 data not available for this topic.
2001 data not available for this topic.
1991 data not available for this topic.