Election: SNP hold Dunfermline as Reform fail to knock out Labour
By Allan Crow
Published 8th May 2026, 15:29 GMT
Cabinet Minister Shiley Anne Somerville is back at Holyrood after comfortably retaining her Dunfermline seat.
She wona five-way contest which saw debutants, ReformUK, take over 5000 votes - but not enough to finish second.
Ms Somerville, who has served served as Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice , scored a comfortable victory with 14,206 to ease home past second placed Joseph Long (Labour) on 8769.
Otto Inglis took ReformUK into third on 5093, ahead of Lauren Quigley on 3849 for the Lib Dems, and Thomnas Heald (Conservatives) on 2209.
It was the second success for the SNP in Fife, with Councillor David Barratt comfortably retaining the Cowdenbeath seat vacatced by the retiring Annabelle Ewing.