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Revision as of 15:33, 7 May 2021

Not to be confused with North East Fife (UK 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
Population75,226 (2019)[1]
Current constituency
Created1999
PartyScottish Liberal Democrats
MSPWillie Rennie
Council areaFife

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.

Electoral region

See also: Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament 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.[2] 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:

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election Member Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | 1999 Iain Smith Scottish Liberal Democrats
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | 2011 Roderick Campbell Scottish National Party
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | 2016 Willie Rennie Scottish Liberal Democrats
style="background-color: Template:Scottish Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | 2021 Willie Rennie Scottish Liberal Democrats

Election results

2020s

2021 Scottish Parliament election: North East Fife[3]
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
Labour Wendy Hayes 1,056 2.6 Decrease3.3
SNP Rhuaraidh Fleming 14,715 36.6 Increase2.9
Conservative Rhona Metcalfe 2,323 5.8 Decrease10.8
Liberal Democrats Willie Rennie[a] 22,163 55.1 Increase11.3
Abolish the Scottish Parliament
Alba
All for Unity
Freedom Alliance (UK)
Reform UK
Renew
Scottish Family Party
Scottish Green
Scottish Libertarian
UKIP
Independent Mercy Kamanja
Independent Martin Keatings
Notes
  1. ^ Incumbent member for this constituency

2010s

2016 Scottish Parliament election: North East Fife
Party Candidate Constituency Regional
Votes % ±% Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Willie Rennie[a] 14,928 43.8 Increase15.4 9,054 26.5
SNP Roderick Campbell 11,463 33.7 Decrease3.5 10,860 31.8
Conservative Huw Bell 5,646 16.6 Decrease2.3 8,260 24.2
Scottish Green 2,665 7.8
Labour Rosalind Garton 2,026 5.9 Decrease6.3 2,427 7.1
UKIP 553 1.6
Scottish Libertarian 139 0.9
RISE 102 0.7
Solidarity 71 0.4
Majority 3,465 10.1 N/A
Turnout 34,063 63.0 Increase12.9 34,131 63.1
Liberal Democrats gain from SNP Swing +15.4
Notes
  1. ^ Incumbent member for this constituency
2011 Scottish Parliament election: North East Fife[4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SNP Roderick Campbell 11,029 37.2 N/A
Liberal Democrats Iain Smith 8,437 28.4 N/A
Conservative Miles Briggs 5,618 18.9 N/A
Labour Colin Davidson 3,613 12.2 N/A
UKIP Mike Scott-Hayward 979 3.3 N/A
Majority 2,592 8.8 N/A
Turnout 29,676 50.1 N/A
SNP win (new boundaries)

2000s

2007 Scottish Parliament election: North East Fife
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 +8.9
Labour Kenny Young 2,557 8.1 +0.1
Independent Tony Campbell 662 2.1 New
Majority 5,016 15.9 −1.3
Turnout 31,552 51.7 +1.8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing -0.7
2003 Scottish Parliament election: North East Fife
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Iain Smith 13,479 46.0 +7.2
Conservative Ted Brocklebank 8,424 28.8 +4.1
SNP Capre Ross-Williams 3,660 12.5 −6.2
Labour Gregor Poynton 2,353 8.0 −6.4
Scottish Socialist Carlo Morelli 1,366 4.7 New
Majority 5,055 17.2 +3.1
Turnout 29,282 49.9 −8.5
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +6.5

1990s

1999 Scottish Parliament election: North East Fife
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Iain Smith 13,590 37.8 N/A
Conservative Ted Brocklebank 8,526 23.7 N/A
SNP Colin Welsh 6,373 17.7 N/A
Labour Charles Milne 5,175 14.4 N/A
Independent Donald MacGregor 1,540 4.3 N/A
Independent Robert Beveridge 737 2.1 N/A
Majority 5,064 14.1 N/A
Turnout 35,941 58.4 N/A
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Footnotes

  1. ^ Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) Population Estimates (2011 Data Zone based), National Records of Scotland; retrieved 6 May 2021 (accompanying summary notes)
  2. ^ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Constituencies A-Z | Fife North East, BBC News; retrieved 7 May 2021
  4. ^ "BBC News - Election 2011 - Scotland - Fife North East". BBC News.
  5. ^ Council, Fife. "Council and democracy". www.fifedirect.org.uk.
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