Fife North East (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament
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Fife North East is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of Fife.[2] It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it is also one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.[3] Prior to the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025, the constituency was known as North East Fife; the name was changed to avoid confusion with the North East Fife constituency of the UK Parliament.[4]
| Fife North East | |
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| County constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
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 Fife North East shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
| Electoral region | Mid Scotland and Fife |
| Electorate | 56,669 (2022)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1999 |
| Party | Scottish Liberal Democrats |
| MSP | Willie Rennie |
| Council area | Fife |
The seat has been held since the 2016 Scottish Parliament election by Willie Rennie, the former leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
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.[3] 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.[5]
Constituency boundaries and council area
The seat is one of five representing Fife the Scottish Parliament with the other four being Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, and Mid Fife and Glenrothes.[2]
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, using the name and boundaries of the pre-existing North East Fife constituency of the House of Commons constituency. Since the 2005 United Kingdom general election UK and Scottish parliamentary constituencies have diverged, and there is no longer any link between the two sets of boundaries, although they continued to share a name.[6] The boundaries of the Scottish Parliament seat were themselves reviewed ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election as part of the first periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries. The following electoral wards of Fife Council were used to define the North East Fife constituency at this review:[7]
At the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025 the seat boundaries were unchanged, however from the 2026 Scottish Parliament election onwards the constituency has been renamed to Fife North East to avoid confusion with the North East Fife constituency of the UK Parliament.[4]
Member of the Scottish Parliament
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Iain Smith | Liberal Democrats | |
| 2011 | Roderick Campbell | SNP | |
| 2016 | Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrats | |
Election results
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Willie Rennie[a] | |||||||
| SNP | John Beare | |||||||
| Conservative | Edward Sheasby | |||||||
| Reform | William Docherty | |||||||
| Labour | Elizabeth Carr-Ellis | |||||||
| Advance UK | ||||||||
| AtLS | ||||||||
| ISP | ||||||||
| Independent Green Voice | ||||||||
| Scottish Family | ||||||||
| Green | ||||||||
| Scottish Libertarian | ||||||||
| Scottish Socialist | ||||||||
| Majority | ||||||||
| Valid votes | ||||||||
| Invalid votes | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Willie Rennie[a] | 22,163 | 55.1 |  11.2 |
11,728 | 29.1 | 2.5 | |
| SNP | Rhuaraidh Fleming | 14,715 | 36.6 | 2.9 |
12,484 | 30.9 |  0.9 | |
| Conservative | Rhona Metcalfe | 2,323 | 5.8 | 10.8 |
8,108 | 20.1 | 4.1 | |
| Green | 4,068 | 10.1 | 2.3 | |||||
| Labour | Wendy Hayes | 1,056 | 2.6 | 3.3 |
2,425 | 6.0 | 1.1 | |
| Alba | 585 | 1.4 | New | |||||
| All for Unity | 303 | 0.8 | New | |||||
| Scottish Family | 214 | 0.5 | New | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 111 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |||||
| Abolish the Scottish Parliament | 110 | 0.3 | New | |||||
| Freedom Alliance (UK) | 73 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| Reform | 71 | 0.2 | New | |||||
| UKIP | 35 | 0.1 | 1.5 | |||||
| Independent | Martin Keatings | 32 | 0.1 | New | ||||
| Renew | 11 | 0.0 | New | |||||
| Independent | Mercy Kamanja | 5 | 0.0 | New | ||||
| Majority | 7,448 | 18.5 | 8.4 |
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| Valid votes | 40,257 | 40,363 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 159 | 53 | ||||||
| Turnout | 40,416 | 68.9 | 5.7 |
40,416 | 68.9 | 5.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | 7.1 |
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2010s
| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Regional | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Willie Rennie[a] | 14,928 | 43.8 | 15.4 |
9,054 | 26.5 | 9.3 | |
| SNP | Roderick Campbell[b] | 11,463 | 33.7 | 3.5 |
10,860 | 31.8 | 7.5 | |
| Conservative | Huw Bell | 5,646 | 16.6 | 2.3 |
8,260 | 24.2 | 5.7 | |
| Green | 2,665 | 7.8 | 0.5 | |||||
| Labour | Rosalind Garton | 2,026 | 5.9 | 6.3 |
2,427 | 7.1 | 4.7 | |
| UKIP | 553 | 1.6 | 1.3 | |||||
| Scottish Libertarian | 139 | 0.4 | New | |||||
| RISE | 102 | 0.3 | New | |||||
| Solidarity | 71 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||
| Majority | 3,465 | 10.1 | N/A | |||||
| Valid votes | 34,063 | 34,131 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 101 | 48 | ||||||
| Turnout | 34,164 | 63.2 | 12.5 |
34,179 | 63.2 | 12.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats gain from SNP | Swing | 8.4 |
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Notes
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| Party | Candidate | Constituency | Region | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | Votes | % | ±% | |||
| SNP | Roderick Campbell | 11,029 | 37.2 | N/A | 11,699 | 39.3 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Iain Smith[a] | 8,437 | 28.4 | N/A | 5,120 | 17.2 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Miles Briggs | 5,618 | 18.9 | N/A | 5,507 | 18.5 | N/A | |
| Labour | Colin Davidson | 3,613 | 12.2 | N/A | 3,503 | 11.8 | N/A | |
| Green | 2,188 | 7.4 | N/A | |||||
| UKIP | Mike Scott-Hayward | 979 | 3.3 | N/A | 565 | 1.9 | N/A | |
| Scottish Senior Citizens | 487 | 1.6 | N/A | |||||
| BNP | 166 | 0.6 | N/A | |||||
| Independent | Andrew Roger | 133 | 0.4 | N/A | ||||
| Socialist Labour | 83 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 127 | 0.4 | N/A | |||||
| CPA | 85 | 0.3 | N/A | |||||
| Scottish Christian | 63 | 0.2 | N/A | |||||
| Solidarity | 23 | 0.1 | N/A | |||||
| Majority | 2,592 | 8.8 | N/A | |||||
| Valid votes | 29,676 | 29,749 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 156 | 112 | ||||||
| Turnout | 29,835 | 50.7 | N/A | 29,861 | 50.7 | N/A | ||
| SNP win (new boundaries) | ||||||||
2000s
| 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 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Iain Smith | 13,479 | 46.0 | +7.2 | |
| Conservative | Ted Brocklebank | 8,424 | 28.8 | +5.1 | |
| 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
| 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) | |||||