Fife Council election, 1999

Fife Council election, 1999
Scotland
6 May 1999

All 78 seats to Fife Council
40 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Christine May
Party Labour Liberal Democrats SNP
Leader's seat The Lochs
Last election 52 seats 24 seats, 9 seats,
Seats before 52 24 9
Seats won 43 . 9
Seats after 21
Seat change Decrease9 Decrease3

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party Independent Conservative
Leader's seat Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay
Last election 5 seats, 0 seats,
Seats before 5 0
Seats won 1
Seats after 4 1
Seat change Decrease1 Increase1

Council Leader before election

Alex Rowley
Labour

Council Leader after election

Christine May
Labour

1999 Elections to Fife Council were held on 6 May 1999, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament election. The election were the first after the third boundary review which resulted in 78 individual councillors being elected.

Election results

Fife Local Election Result 1999
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 43 9 38.79% 60,891
  Liberal Democrats 21 3 22.34% 35,074
  SNP 9 26.83% 42,110
  Independent 4 1 2.2% 3.489
  Conservative 1 1 7.13% 11,191
  Others 2.69% 4,217

Turn out was 56.1%

Party performance

Labour performed very well continuing it control its majority.

Changes since last election

Boundary Commission for Scotland had its Third review in to the ward area for Fife Area. The resulting changes lead to 14 fewer wards.[1]

References

  1. "Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland - 3rd review Fife". Lgbc-scotland.gov.uk. Retrieved 2012-06-21.

External links

Preceded by
Fife Council election 1995
Fife Council elections Succeeded by
Fife Council election 2003