Talk:Dundee West (UK Parliament constituency)

Is Jim McGovern the Labour Party candidate for the next general election?
This article lists McGovern as the Labour candidate. We need a reliable ext ref that McGovern has actually been officially selected to defend this seat.

AFAIAA he has not actually been selected. If a ref is not provided today then his name must be removed from the list of "Confirmed candidates". --Mais oui! (talk) 09:44, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Inaccurate text removed
I have removed the following text from the "Politics and history of the constituency" section of this article: "Its voters have traditionally been more loyal to the Labour Party than the neighbouring Dundee East constituency; which had elected only one Labour MP since the 1950s." This patently untrue. Since the 1950s Dundee East has been represented by 4 different Labour MPs and SNP MPs. It never elected a non-Labour MP until 1974 and again was represented by Labour members from 1987 until 2005. The majority of elections in this period were won by Labour candidates. Indeed until the 1970s Dundee East was arguably the safer Labour seat, with the 1973 Dundee East by-election, being the first close result (whereas Dundee West came close to being gained by the Conservatives in 1959). Admittedly on the current boundaries - which give Dundee East significant chunks of Angus as well as parts of - Dundee it may well have returned non-Labour candidates prior to 1974, we are not dealing with hypotheticals here and the statement was factually untrue. Dunarc (talk) 23:46, 24 March 2020 (UTC)