Fife Council elections

Fife Council in Scotland holds elections every five years, previously holding them every four years from its creation as a single-tier authority in 1995 to 2007.

Year
Year	SNP	Labour	Liberal^[a]	Conservative	Communist	Independent
1974	0	26	0	10	1	5^[b]
1978	1	24	0	14	1	2
1982^[c]	1	27	4	10	1	2
1986	2	30	8	4	1	1
1990	2	30	10	2	1	1
1994^[d]	4	28	12	0	1	1

Year
Year	SNP	Labour	Liberal Democrats	Conservative	Communist	Independent
1995	9	52	24	0	1	2
1999^[a]	9	43	21	1	1	4^[b]
2003	11	36	23	2	0	6
2007^[c]	23	24	21	5	0	5
2012	26	35	10	3	0	4
2017^[d]	29	24	7	15	0	0
2022	34	20	13	8	0	0

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	462	38.2	−8.0
	SNP	319	26.3	+26.3
	Independent	297	24.5	+24.5
	Scottish Socialist	72	5.9	−1.7
	Liberal Democrats	24	2.0	−0.5
	Conservative	19	1.6	−1.2
	Scottish Senior Citizens	18	1.5	+1.5
Majority		143	11.8
Turnout		1,211
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	443	34.4	−20.7
	Independent	379	29.4	+29.4
	Conservative	342	26.5	+1.2
	SNP	54	4.2	+4.2
	Scottish Socialist	40	3.1	−5.2
	Labour	31	2.4	−8.9
Majority		64	5.0
Turnout		1,289
	Liberal Democrats hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	SNP	609	46.7	+21.9
	Labour	321	24.6	−4.1
	Independent	249	19.1	+19.1
	Liberal Democrats	71	5.4	−11.3
	Conservative	54	4.1	+4.1
Majority		288	22.1
Turnout		1,304
	SNP gain from Independent	Swing

Fife Council elections

As a regional council

As a unitary authority

Results maps

By-elections

2003-2007

2012-2017

2017-2022

2022-2027

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	John Beare^[9]	892	55.7	+26.1
	Labour		388	24.2	−34.0
	Liberal Democrats		257	16.1	+10.5
	Conservative		39	2.4	−4.2
	Independent		25	1.6	+1.6
Majority			504	31.5
Turnout			1,601
	SNP gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Labour	John Wincott	45.8	1,896	1,927	1,966	2,095
	SNP	Keith Grieve	41.3	1,711	1,724	1,761	1,814
	Conservative	Allan Smith	6.6	272	287	335
	UKIP	Peter Taggerty	4.3	176	184
	Liberal Democrats	Harry Wills	2.0	83
	Labour hold
Valid: 4,138 Spoilt: 25 Quota: 2,070 Turnout: 4,163

v t e Council elections in Fife
Fife Regional Council	1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 Abolished
Fife Council	1995 1999 2003 2007 2012 2017 2022
Dunfermline District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992 Abolished
Kirkcaldy District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992 Abolished
North East Fife District Council	1974 1977 1980 1984 1988 1992 Abolished

Dunfermline South By-Election 24 October 2013^[11]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Billy Pollock	39.7	2,552	2,568	2,618	2,697	3,170	4,086
	SNP	Helen Cannon-Todd	32.0	2,057	2,075	2,112	2,142	2,358
	Liberal Democrats	Robin Munro	15.7	1,009	1,029	1,073	1,257
	Conservative	David Ross	7.0	450	497	504
	Green	Angela Dixon	2.8	183	201
	UKIP	Judith Rideout	2.8	183
	Labour hold
Valid: 6,434 Quota: 3,217

Cowdenbeath By-Election 22 May 2014^[12]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Labour	Gary Guichan	61.5	2,039
	SNP	Connor Watt	25.2	834
	UKIP	Judith Rideout	8.4	277
	Conservative	John Wheatley	4.9	164
	Labour hold
Valid: 3,314

The Lochs By-Election 22 May 2014^[13]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Labour	Alex Campbell	65.9	2,042
	SNP	Lesley Backhouse	24.3	753
	UKIP	Martin Green	5.2	162
	Conservative	Jonathan Gray	4.6	141
	Labour hold
Valid: 3,098 Spoilt: 52 Quota: 1,550 Turnout: 3,150

Kirkcaldy East By-Election 22 January 2015^[14]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Marie Penman	47.3	1,460	1,464	1,466	1,472	1,484	1,553
	Labour	Liz Easton	35.3	1,088	1,088	1,091	1,097	1,120	1,148
	Conservative	Edgar Cook	7.2	223	224	225	231	266	274
	Green	Claire Reid	4.1	126	129	132	138	150
	UKIP	Peter Adams	3.8	117	117	120	123
	Liberal Democrats	Callum Leslie	1.3	40	40	41
	Independent	Ronald Hunter	0.6	19	21
	Independent	Alastair MacIntyre	0.4	12
	SNP hold
Valid: 3,085 Spoilt: 41 Quota: 1,543 Turnout: 3,126