North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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
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.

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

	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

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: North East Fife^[2]
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
Turnout			34,063	63.0	+3.7
	Liberal Democrats gain from SNP		Swing

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: North East Fife^[3]^[4]
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

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: North East Fife
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

Scottish Parliament election, 2007: 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	+8.8
	Labour	Kenny Young	2,557	8.1	+0.1
	Independent	Tony Campbell	662	2.1	+2.1
Majority			5,016	15.9
Turnout			31,552	51.7	+1.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	-0.7

Scottish Parliament election, 2003: North East Fife
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
Turnout			29,282	49.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	+6.5

Scottish Parliament election, 1999: North East Fife
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 hold		Swing

Footnotes

« 1999–2011 « Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 2011–

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Motherwell and Wishaw Uddingston and Bellshill

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Provan Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Southside Rutherglen

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Inverness and Nairn Moray Na h-Eileanan an Iar Orkney Shetland Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Lothian	Almond Valley Edinburgh Central Edinburgh Eastern Edinburgh Northern and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh Southern Edinburgh Western Linlithgow Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Mid Scotland and Fife	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen Donside Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Aberdeenshire East Aberdeenshire West Angus North and Mearns Angus South Banffshire and Buchan Coast Dundee City East Dundee City West

South Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Dumfriesshire East Lothian Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Galloway and West Dumfries Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Midlothian South, Tweeddale, and Lauderdale

West Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Cunninghame South Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley Renfrewshire North and West Renfrewshire South Strathkelvin and Bearsden

Electoral regions and Constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »

Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw

Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn

Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles

Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian

Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling

North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale

West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

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