page_title: Politics of Dundee
section_title: Independence referendum
hierarchical_section_title: Politics of Dundee / Independence referendum
caption_attribution_description: English: Pro-independence demonstrators at rally in Dundee
context_page_description: Politics in the Dundee City council area are evident in the deliberations and decisions of Dundee City Council, in elections to the council, and in elections to the Scottish Parliament and the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
  In the European Parliament, the city area is within the Scotland constituency, which covers all of the 32 council areas of Scotland.
  Dundee City became a single-tier council in 1996, under the Local Government etc. Act 1994, with the boundaries of the City of Dundee district of the Tayside region, minus a Monifieth area and part of a Sidlaw area, which were transferred from the city area to the new council area of Angus. The city district was also the administrative centre for the region.
  The new city council area was named The City of Dundee in the legislation of 1994, but this was changed to Dundee City by a council resolution on 29 June 1995, under section 23 of the Local Government Act 1973. In terms of area, it is the smallest of Scotland's council areas.
context_section_description: Dundee returned the highest proportion of Yes votes of any area in Scotland in the 2014 independence referendum, with 53,620 Yes votes to 39,880 No votes. It was among only four local authority areas that backed independence. In Summer 2014, First Minister Alex Salmond said Dundee was moving "towards being Scotland's Yes city", and it retained that designation in the run-up to the referendum. Housing schemes in Dundee canvassed by Yes activists indicated levels of support of up to 80 per cent in favour of independence.
  Headlines were made in the final week of the campaign when a Better Together event in Dundee was crashed by a piper lead demonstration involving Yes activists and members of the Scottish Socialist Party, who marched from the event they were having in Albert Square to sing protest songs at Labour party representatives at the foot of Reform Street.
caption: Pro-independence demonstrators in Dundee
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