Cathedrals · Scottish Highlands
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Best time of year
- Year-round
About
Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy is a county constituency representing the areas around the towns of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, in Fife, Scotland, in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It has been represented since 2024 by Melanie Ward of Scottish Labour. Prior to the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, which came into effect for the 2024 general election, the seat had different boundaries and was known as Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. It was previously represented by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown from 2005 until 2015, who had been MP for the Dunfermline East constituency from 1983–2005 until boundary changes. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007 and as UK Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010.
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Background
History
The first Member of Parliament after the seat's creation in 2005, was the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown; who had previously represented Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005, and later succeeded Tony Blair as Prime Minister in 2007. At the general election of 2010, Brown was re-elected as an MP, but was defeated as prime minister, and soon resigned as Leader of the Labour Party. He announced that he would continue to serve as an Opposition backbencher, and did not retire from the Commons until the 2015 general election, which he did not contest. On that occasion, the SNP won parliamentary representation in the area for the first time, in line with the party's landslide victory…
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- Coordinates
- 56.0992, -3.2736
- Established
- 2024
- Official site
- www.bcomm-scotland.independent.gov.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q126890873 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy?
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.0992°, -3.2736°.
- When was Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy built?
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy dates to 2024.