North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)
| North East Fife | |
|---|---|
| county constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
 | |
 North East Fife shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1999 |
| Party | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
| MSP | Willie Rennie |
| Council area | Fife |
North East Fife is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
Contents
1 Electoral region
2 Constituency boundaries and council area
3 Member of the Scottish Parliament
4 Election results
4.1 Constituency votes
5 Footnotes
Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and Stirling.
The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area and all of the Stirling council area.
Constituency boundaries and council area
Fife is represented in the Scottish Parliament by five constituencies, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes and North East Fife.
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster (House of Commons) constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.[1] The Fife North East Westminster constituency was slightly enlarged.
From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the reshaped North East Fife constituency was formed from the following electoral wards:
- In full: Howe of Fife and Tay Coast, Tay Bridgehead, St Andrews, East Neuk and Landward, Cupar
Member of the Scottish Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
1999 | Iain Smith | Liberal Democrats | |
2003 | |||
2007 | |||
2011 | Roderick Campbell | Scottish National Party | |
2016 | Willie Rennie | Scottish Liberal Democrats | |
Election results
Constituency votes
Willie Rennie
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Willie Rennie | 14,928 | 43.8 | +15.4 | |
SNP | Roderick Campbell | 11,463 | 33.7 | -3.5 | |
Conservative | Huw Bell | 5,646 | 16.6 | -2.4 | |
Labour | Rosalind Garton | 2,026 | 5.9 | -6.2 | |
| Majority | 3,465 | 10.1 | +18.8 | ||
Turnout | 34,063 | 63.0 | +12.9 | ||
Liberal Democrats gain from SNP | Swing | +9.5 | |||
Roderick Campbell
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SNP | Roderick Campbell | 11,029 | 37.2 | +16.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Iain Smith | 8,437 | 28.4 | -13.8 | |
Conservative | Miles Briggs | 5,618 | 18.9 | -7.8 | |
Labour | Colin Davidson | 3,613 | 12.2 | +4.3 | |
UKIP | Mike Scott-Hayward | 979 | 3.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 2,592 | 8.7 | |||
Turnout | 29,676 | 50.1 | |||
SNP gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | + 16.8 | |||
Iain Smith
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | 12,435 | 42.3 | |||
Conservative | 7,869 | 26.7 | |||
SNP | 6,169 | 21.0 | |||
Labour | 2,312 | 7.9 | |||
| Others | 638 | 2.2 | |||
| Majority | 4,566 | 15.5 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Iain Smith | 13,307 | 42.2 | -3.8 | |
Conservative | Ted Brocklebank | 8,291 | 26.3 | -2.5 | |
SNP | Roderick Campbell | 6,735 | 21.4 | +8.8 | |
Labour | Kenny Young | 2,557 | 8.1 | +0.1 | |
Independent | Tony Campbell | 662 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
| Majority | 5,016 | 15.9 | -1.4 | ||
Turnout | 31,552 | 51.7 | +1.8 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | -0.7 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Iain Smith | 13,479 | 46.0 | +6.5 | |
Conservative | Ted Brocklebank | 8,424 | 28.8 | +4.0 | |
SNP | Capre Ross-Williams | 3,660 | 12.5 | -6.0 | |
Labour | Gregor Poynton | 2,353 | 8.0 | -7.0 | |
Scottish Socialist | Carlo Morelli | 1,366 | 4.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 5,055 | 17.3 | +3.3 | ||
Turnout | 29,282 | 49.9 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +6.5 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Iain Smith | 13,590 | 37.81 | N/A | |
Conservative | Ted Brocklebank | 8,526 | 23.72 | N/A | |
SNP | Colin Welsh | 6,373 | 17.73 | N/A | |
Labour | Charles Milne | 5,175 | 14.40 | N/A | |
Independent | Donald MacGregor | 1,540 | 4.28 | N/A | |
Independent | Robert Beveridge | 737 | 2.05 | N/A | |
| Majority | 5,064 | 14.05 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 35,941 | ||||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | |||||
Footnotes
^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ http://publications.1fife.org.uk/uploadfiles/publications/c64_NoticeofElection-withPollingSchedules-Constituency.pdf
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