Kirkcaldy (Scottish Parliament constituency)
Kirkcaldy | |
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county constituency for the Scottish Parliament | |
Kirkcaldy shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1999 |
Party | Scottish National Party |
MSP | David Torrance |
Council area | Fife |
Kirkcaldy is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, 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.
Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, North East Fife, 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 Kirkcaldy Westminster constituency was divided between Glenrothes and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
In boundary changes that took effect at the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the newly drawn Kirkcaldy was formed from the following electoral wards:
- In full: Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy, Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages, Kirkcaldy North, Kirkcaldy Central, Kirkcaldy East
Member of the Scottish Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
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1999 | Marilyn Livingstone | Labour | |
2003 | |||
2007 | |||
2011 | David Torrance | Scottish National Party |
Election results
Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Kirkcaldy | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
SNP | David Torrance | 12,579 | 45.2 | +11.9 | |
Labour | Marilyn Livingstone | 12,397 | 44.6 | -0.5 | |
Conservative | Ian McFarlane | 2,007 | 7.2 | -1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Mainland | 820 | 2.9 | -10.1 | |
Majority | 182 | 0.7 | |||
Turnout | 27,803 | 46.0 | |||
SNP gain from Labour | Swing | +6.2 | |||
Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Kirkcaldy | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | 12,890 | 45.1 | |||
SNP | 9,536 | 33.4 | |||
Liberal Democrats | 3,716 | 13.0 | |||
Conservative | 2,441 | 8.5 | |||
Majority | 3,354 | 11.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Kirkcaldy | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Marilyn Livingstone | 10,627 | 43.9 | -2.8 | |
SNP | Chris Harvie | 8,005 | 33.1 | +8.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alice Soper | 3,361 | 13.9 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | David Potts | 2,202 | 9.1 | -1.5 | |
Majority | 2,622 | 10.8 | |||
Turnout | 24,195 | 47.7 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -5.6% | |||
Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Kirkcaldy | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Marilyn Livingstone | 10,235 | 46.7 | -1.5 | |
SNP | Colin Welsh | 5,411 | 24.7 | -7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alex Cole-Hamilton | 2,417 | 11.0 | +1.8 | |
Conservative | Mike Scott-Hayward | 2,332 | 10.6 | +0.4 | |
Scottish Socialist | Rudi Vogels | 1,544 | 7.0 | +7.0 | |
Majority | 4,824 | 22.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 21,939 | 44.2 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -4.6% | |||
Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Kirkcaldy | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Marilyn Livingstone | 13,645 | 48.14 | N/A | |
SNP | Stewart Hosie | 9,170 | 32.35 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mike Scott-Hayward | 2,907 | 10.26 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | John Mainland | 2,620 | 9.24 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,475 | 15.79 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 28,342 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A | |||
Footnotes
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