North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)

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.

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

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 and Strathmiglo

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1999	Iain Smith	Scottish Liberal Democrats
	2011	Roderick Campbell	Scottish National Party
	2016	Willie Rennie	Scottish Liberal Democrats

Election results

2010s

2016 Scottish Parliament election: 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	-2.3
	Labour	Rosalind Garton	2,026	5.9	-6.3
Majority			3,465	10.1	N/A
Turnout			34,063	63.0	+12.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from SNP		Swing	+9.5

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

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. See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
2. http://publications.1fife.org.uk/uploadfiles/publications/c64_NoticeofElection-withPollingSchedules-Constituency.pdf
3. "BBC News - Election 2011 - Scotland - Fife North East". BBC News.
4. Council, Fife. "Council and democracy". www.fifedirect.org.uk.