Thomas Docherty becomes Labour MP for Rosyth

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Labour's Thomas Docherty is the new MP for Rosyth.

He replaces Liberal Democrat MP Willie Rennie, who took the Dunfermline and West Fife seat in a by-election in 2006.

Mr Docherty received 22,639 votes against Mr Rennie's 17,169.

The votes were as follows:

Thomas Docherty

Labour

22,639

Willie Rennie

Liberal Democrat

17,169

Joe McCall

Scottish National Party

5,201

Belinda Hacking

Conservative

3,305

Otto Inglis

UK Independence Party

633

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Harry Heritage says

Re Willie Rennie, I've lived in Rosyth all my life and Rosyth has always been a Labour stronghold, there was a saying that if Labour put up a monkey for election it would get in. Well it all changed for a short time and Willie Rennie was the only MP that really looked after his constituents. Hope that we don't hear the last of him.

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