Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament electoral region)
Mid Scotland and Fife | |
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electoral region for the Scottish Parliament | |
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Population | 668,930 (2019)[1] |
Current electoral region | |
Created | 1999 |
MSPs | Scottish National Party 8 Conservative 4 Labour 2 Liberal Democrats 1 Scottish Greens 1 |
Council areas | Clackmannanshire Fife Perth and Kinross Stirling |
Constituencies | Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling |
Mid Scotland and Fife is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.
The Mid Scotland and Fife region shares boundaries with the Central Scotland, Highlands and Islands, North East Scotland and West of Scotland regions and is connected with the Lothian region by bridges across the Firth of Forth.
Constituencies and council areas[]
2011–present[]
As a result of the First Periodic Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries the boundaries for the region and constituencies were redrawn for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.
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1999–2011[]
The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster constituencies, as existing in at that time.[2] The Holyrood constituencies cover all of three council areas,[3] the Clackmannanshire council area, the Fife council area and the Stirling council area, most of the Perth and Kinross council area and part of the Angus council area.
The rest of the Angus council area is within the North East Scotland electoral region.
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Members of the Scottish Parliament[]
Members of the Scottish Parliament[]
Constituency MSPs[]
Regional List MSPs[]
N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only
Parliament | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | MSP | |||||||
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1st (1999–2003) |
Bruce Crawford (SNP) |
Tricia Marwick (SNP) |
George Reid (SNP) |
Keith Raffan (Lib Dem) |
Keith Harding (Conservative) |
Nick Johnston (Conservative) |
Brian Monteith (Conservative) | |||||||
Murdo Fraser (Conservative) | ||||||||||||||
2nd (2003–07) |
Mark Ruskell (Green) |
Ted Brocklebank (Conservative) | ||||||||||||
Andrew Arbuckle (Lib Dem) | ||||||||||||||
3rd (2007–11) |
Chris Harvie (SNP) |
John Park (Labour) |
Claire Brennan-Baker (Labour) |
Richard Simpson (Labour) |
Liz Smith (Conservative) | |||||||||
4th (2011–16) |
Annabelle Ewing (SNP) |
Willie Rennie (Lib Dem) | ||||||||||||
Jayne Baxter Labour | ||||||||||||||
5th (2016–) |
Mark Ruskell (Green) |
Alex Rowley (Labour) |
Dean Lockhart (Conservative) |
Alexander Stewart (Conservative) | ||||||||||
6th (2021–) |
Election results[]
2021 Scottish Parliament election[]
Constituency results[]
2021 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||
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Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane | Keith Brown | SNP hold | |
Cowdenbeath | Annabelle Ewing | SNP hold | |
Dunfermline | Shirley-Anne Somerville | SNP hold | |
Kirkcaldy | David Torrance | SNP hold | |
Mid Fife and Glenrothes | Jenny Gilruth | SNP hold | |
North East Fife | Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrats hold | |
Perthshire North | John Swinney | SNP hold | |
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire | Jim Fairlie | SNP hold | |
Stirling | Evelyn Tweed | SNP hold |
Additional member results[]
2021 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife[4][5] | |||||
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List | Candidates | Votes | % | ± | |
SNP | Stefan Hoggan-Radu, John Swinney, Keith Brown, Annabelle Ewing, Jim Fairlie, David Torrance, Ross Cunningham, Fiona Sarwar, Moraig Henderson, Lee Robb, Rosemary Hunter | 136,825 | 39.8 | ![]() | |
Conservative | Murdo Fraser, Liz Smith, Dean Lockhart, Alexander Stewart, Roz McCall, Angus Forbes, Rhona Metcalfe, Darren Watt, Moira Benny, Kathleen Leslie, David MacPhee | 85,909 | 25.0 | ![]() | |
Labour | Claire Baker, Alex Rowley, Julie MacDougall, Craig Miller, Chris Kane, Ryan Smart, Ewan Dillon | 52,626 | 15.3 | ![]() | |
Green | Mark Ruskell, Mags Hall, Marion Robertson, Fiona McOwan, Scott Rutherford, Jeroen van Leeuwen, Elspeth MacLachlan, Paul Vallot, Amy Smith, Craig McCutcheon | 28,654 | 8.3 | ![]() | |
Liberal Democrats | Willie Rennie, Peter Barrett, Aude Boubaker-Calder, Julia Brown, Jane Liston, Fayzan Rehman, Aisha Mir | 25,489 | 7.4 | ![]() | |
Alba | Eva Comrie, Neale Hanvey, Jim Eadie, Stephanie Reilly | 5,893 | 1.7 | ![]() | |
All for Unity | Linda Holt, Imam Khan, Brian Henderson, Ian Stewart, James Glen, Graham Dawson, Michael Saint | 2,578 | 0.7 | ![]() | |
Scottish Family | Donald Marshall, Stephen Saunders, Davina Saunders, Anil Alexander, George Carratt, Linda Mair, Paul Lynch | 1,920 | 0.6 | ![]() | |
Abolish the Scottish Parliament | Ian Mann, John Duff | 945 | 0.3 | ![]() | |
Freedom Alliance | Lisa Brackenridge, Eren Sinclair, Stuart Cairns, Kathleen Elliott | 837 | 0.2 | ![]() | |
Libertarian | Calum Paul, George Morton | 818 | 0.2 | ![]() | |
Reform UK | Kenneth Morton, Victoria McCann, Otto Inglis, Alexander Black, Guy Addison, Karen Morton | 808 | 0.2 | ![]() | |
UKIP | Lynda Davis, Douglas Watters, George Cormack, Edward McNally | 399 | 0.1 | -1.7 | |
Independent | Martin James Keatings | 230 | 0.1 | ![]() | |
Renew | Bruce Henderson, Stefan Diesing | 99 | 0.0 | ![]() | |
Independent | Mercy Mugure Kamanja | 29 | 0.0 | ![]() |
2016 Scottish Parliament election[]
In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 8 Scottish National Party MSPs (all constituency members)
- 4 Conservative MSP (all additional members)
- 2 Labour MSPs (all additional members)
- 1 Liberal Democrat MSP (constituency member)
- 1 Scottish Greens MSP (additional member)
Constituency results[]
2016 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||
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Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane | Keith Brown | SNP hold | |
Cowdenbeath | Annabelle Ewing | SNP gain from Labour | |
Dunfermline | Shirley-Anne Somerville | SNP hold | |
Kirkcaldy | David Torrance | SNP hold | |
Mid Fife and Glenrothes | Jenny Gilruth | SNP hold | |
North East Fife | Willie Rennie | Liberal Democrats gain from SNP | |
Perthshire North | John Swinney | SNP hold | |
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire | Roseanna Cunningham | SNP hold | |
Stirling | Bruce Crawford | SNP hold |
Additional member results[]
2016 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||||||
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Party | Elected candidates | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/−% | |
SNP | 0 | -1 | 120,128 | 41.3 | -3.9 | ||
Conservative | Murdo Fraser Liz Smith Alexander Stewart Dean Lockhart |
4 | +2 | 73,293 | 25.2 | +11.0 | |
Labour | Claire Brennan-Baker Alex Rowley |
2 | -1 | 51,373 | 17.6 | -7.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | 0 | -1 | 20,401 | 7.0 | +1.2 | ||
Green | Mark Ruskell | 1 | +1 | 17,860 | 6.1 | +1.9 | |
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 5,345 | 1.8 | +0.7 | ||
RISE | 0 | 0 | 1,073 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
Solidarity | 0 | 0 | 1,049 | 0.4 | +0.3 | ||
Libertarian | 0 | 0 | 650 | 0.2 | N/A |
2011 Scottish Parliament election[]
In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 9 Scottish National Party MSPs (eight constituency members and one additional members)
- 4 Labour MSPs (one constituency members and three additional members)
- 2 Conservative MSP (both additional members)
- 1 Liberal Democrat MSPs (additional member)
Constituency results[]
2011 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||
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Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane | Keith Brown | SNP hold | |
Cowdenbeath | Helen Eadie | Labour hold | |
Dunfermline | Bill Walker | SNP gain from Liberal Democrats | |
Kirkcaldy | David Torrance | SNP gain from Labour | |
Mid Fife and Glenrothes | Tricia Marwick | SNP hold | |
North East Fife | Roderick Campbell | SNP gain from Liberal Democrats | |
Perthshire North | John Swinney | SNP hold | |
Perthshire South and Kinross-shire | Roseanna Cunningham | SNP hold | |
Stirling | Bruce Crawford | SNP gain from Labour |
Additional member results[]
2011 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||||||
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Party | Elected candidates | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/−% | |
SNP | Annabelle Ewing | 1 | ±0 | 116,691 | 45.2 | +12.7 | |
Labour | John Park Claire Brennan-Baker Richard Simpson |
3 | 0 | 64,623 | 25.0 | -2.1 | |
Conservative | Murdo Fraser Liz Smith |
2 | -1 | 36,458 | 14.1 | -1.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Willie Rennie | 1 | +1 | 15,103 | 5.9 | -7.7 | |
Green | 0 | 0 | 10,914 | 4.2 | +0.5 | ||
All Scotland Pensioners Party | 0 | 0 | 4,113 | 1.6 | -0.4 | ||
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 2,838 | 1.1 | +0.5 | ||
Socialist Labour | 0 | 0 | 1,771 | 0.7 | +0.1 | ||
BNP | 0 | 0 | 1,726 | 0.7 | -0.3 | ||
Independent | 0 | 0 | 1,446 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0 | 834 | 0.3 | -0.1 | ||
Scottish Christian | 0 | 0 | 786 | 0.3 | -0.3 | ||
CPA | 0 | 0 | 638 | 0.2 | 0 | ||
Solidarity | 0 | 0 | 202 | 0.1 | -0.8 |
2007 Scottish Parliament election[]
In the 2007 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows: In the 2003 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 6 Scottish National Party MSPs (five constituency members and one additional members)
- 5 Labour MSPs (two constituency members and three additional members)
- 3 Conservative MSP (all additional members)
- 2 Liberal Democrat MSPs (both constituency members)
Constituency results[]
2007 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||
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Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
Dunfermline East | Helen Eadie | Labour | |
Dunfermline West | Jim Tolson | Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | |
Fife Central | Tricia Marwick | SNP gain from Labour | |
Fife North East | Iain Smith | Liberal Democrats | |
Kirkcaldy | Marilyn Livingstone | Labour | |
North Tayside | John Swinney | SNP | |
Ochil | Keith Brown | SNP | |
Perth | Roseanna Cunningham | SNP | |
Stirling | Bruce Crawford | SNP gain from Labour |
Additional member results[]
2007 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||||||
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Party | Elected candidates | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/−% | |
SNP | Chris Harvie | 1 | -1 | 90,090 | 33.0 | +10.0 | |
Labour | John Park Claire Brennan-Baker Richard Simpson |
3 | +3 | 71,922 | 26.3 | +1.0 | |
Conservative | Murdo Fraser Liz Smith Ted Brocklebank |
3 | ±0 | 44,341 | 16.2 | -1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | 0 | -1 | 36,195 | 13.2 | +1.2 | ||
Green | 0 | -1 | 10,318 | 3.8 | -3.1 | ||
Scottish Senior Citizens | 0 | 0 | 5,523 | 2.0 | N/A | ||
BNP | 0 | 0 | 2,620 | 1.0 | N/A | ||
Solidarity | 0 | 0 | 2,468 | 0.9 | N/A | ||
Scottish Christian | 0 | 0 | 1,698 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 1,587 | 0.6 | -0.4 | ||
Socialist Labour | 0 | 0 | 1,523 | 0.6 | -0.4 | ||
Publican Party | 0 | 0 | 1,309 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0 | 1,116 | 0.4 | -4.2 | ||
Scottish Voice | 0 | 0 | 919 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
CPA | 0 | 0 | 790 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
Free Scotland Party | 0 | 0 | 664 | 0.2 | N/A |
2003 Scottish Parliament election[]
In the 2003 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 5 Labour MSPs (all constituency members)
- 5 Scottish National Party MSPs (3 constituency members and 2 additional members)
- 3 Conservative MSP (all additional members)
- 2 Liberal Democrat MSPs (one constituency member and one additional member)
- 1 Scottish Greens MSP (additional member)
Constituency results[]
2003 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||
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Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
Dunfermline East | Helen Eadie | Labour | |
Dunfermline West | Scott Barrie | Labour | |
Fife Central | Christine May | Labour | |
Fife North East | Iain Smith | Liberal Democrats | |
Kirkcaldy | Marilyn Livingstone | Labour | |
North Tayside | John Swinney | SNP | |
Ochil | George Reid | SNP | |
Perth | Roseanna Cunningham | SNP | |
Stirling | Sylvia Jackson | Labour |
Additional member results[]
2003 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||||||
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Party | Elected candidates | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/−% | |
Labour | 0 | 0 | 63,239 | 25.3 | -8.0 | ||
SNP | Bruce Crawford Tricia Marwick |
2 | −1 | 57,631 | 23.0 | -5.7 | |
Conservative | Murdo Fraser Brian Monteith Ted Brocklebank |
3 | ±0 | 43,941 | 17.6 | -1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Keith Raffan | 1 | ±0 | 30,112 | 12.0 | -0.7 | |
Green | Mark Ruskell | 1 | +1 | 17,147 | 6.9 | +3.0 | |
Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0 | 11,401 | 4.6 | +3.6 | ||
Scottish Pensioners | 0 | 0 | 8,380 | 3.4 | N/A | ||
Fighting Scottish Hospital Closures | 0 | 0 | 5,064 | 2.0 | N/A | ||
Save Local Hospitals | 0 | 0 | 4,622 | 1.9 | N/A | ||
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 2,355 | 0.9 | N/A | ||
Socialist Labour | 0 | 0 | 2,273 | 0.9 | -0.5 | ||
Scottish People's | 0 | 0 | 1,191 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Christian Independent Alliance | 0 | 0 | 1,064 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
Independent | 0 | 0 | 996 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
Independent | 0 | 0 | 637 | 0.3 | N/A |
Changes:
- Andrew Arbuckle replaced Keith Raffan. Raffan resigned from the Parliament in January 2005. Arbuckle was next on the Liberal Democrats' list.
- Brian Monteith resigned from the Conservatives in July 2005, and served the remainder of the term as an Independent MSP.
1999 Scottish Parliament election[]
In the 1999 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:
- 6 Labour MSPs (six constituency members)
- 5 Scottish National Party MSPs (two constituency members three additional members)
- 3 Conservative MSP (three additional members)
- 2 Liberal Democrat MSPs (one constituency member and one additional member)
Constituency results[]
1999 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||
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Constituency | Elected member | Result | |
Dunfermline East | Helen Eadie | Labour win (new seat) | |
Dunfermline West | Scott Barrie | Labour win (new seat) | |
Fife Central | Henry McLeish | Labour win (new seat) | |
Fife North East | Iain Smith | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | |
Kirkaldy | Marilyn Livingstone | Labour win (new seat) | |
North Tayside | John Swinney | SNP win (new seat) | |
Ochil | Richard Simpson | Labour win (new seat) | |
Perth | Roseanna Cunningham | SNP win (new seat) | |
Stirling | Sylvia Jackson | Labour win (new seat) |
Additional member results[]
1999 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife | |||||||
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Party | Elected candidates | Seats | +/− | Votes | % | +/−% | |
Labour | 0 | N/A | 101,964 | 33.3 | N/A | ||
SNP | George Reid Bruce Crawford Tricia Marwick |
3 | N/A | 87,659 | 28.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | Keith Harding Nick Johnston Brian Monteith |
3 | N/A | 56,719 | 18.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Keith Raffan | 1 | N/A | 38,896 | 12.7 | N/A | |
Green | 0 | N/A | 11,821 | 3.9 | N/A | ||
Socialist Labour | 0 | N/A | 4,266 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Scottish Socialist | 0 | N/A | 3,044 | 1.0 | N/A | ||
ProLife Alliance | 0 | N/A | 735 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Natural Law | 0 | N/A | 558 | 0.2 | N/A |
Changes:
- Murdo Fraser replaced Nick Johnston, who had resigned from the Parliament on 10 August 2001 due to ill health. Fraser was next on the Conservative and Unionist list.
Footnotes[]
- ^ Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) Population Estimates (2011 Data Zone based), National Records of Scotland; retrieved 6 May 2021 (accompanying summary notes)
- ^ Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies in 2005. See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Council areas are as defined in 1996, and may be subject to change after the next Scottish Parliament election.
- ^ Grimmond, Steve (31 March 2021). "Scottish Parliamentary election – regional contest Mid Scotland and Fife Region. Statement of persons and parties nominated and Notice of poll" (PDF). Clackmannanshire Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 May 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ "Elections 2021: Mid Scotland and Fife". BBC News. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
- Scottish Parliamentary regions
- Politics of Angus
- Politics of Clackmannanshire
- Politics of Fife
- Politics of Perth and Kinross
- Politics of Stirling (council area)
- Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions 1999–2011
- Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions from 2011