Kirkcaldy (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Kirkcaldy
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

	Member	Party
1999	Marilyn Livingstone	Labour
2003
2007
2011	David Torrance	Scottish National Party
2016	David Torrance	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Kirkcaldy
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	SNP	David Torrance	16,358	52.6	+7.4
	Labour	Claire Baker	8,963	28.8	−15.8
	Conservative	Martin Laidlaw	4,568	14.7	+7.5
	Liberal Democrats	Lauren Jones	1,219	3.9	+1.0
Majority			7,395	23.8	+23.1
Turnout			31,108	52.3	+6.3
	SNP hold		Swing	+11.6

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Kirkcaldy
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
Party		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
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
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
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

↑ See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland Archived 21 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.

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Electoral regions and constituencies of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2011 » 2011– »
Central Scotland	Airdrie and Shotts Coatbridge and Chryston Cumbernauld and Kilsyth East Kilbride Falkirk East Falkirk West Hamilton North and Bellshill Hamilton South Kilmarnock and Loudoun Motherwell and Wishaw
Glasgow	Glasgow Anniesland Glasgow Baillieston Glasgow Cathcart Glasgow Govan Glasgow Kelvin Glasgow Maryhill Glasgow Pollok Glasgow Rutherglen Glasgow Shettleston Glasgow Springburn
Highlands and Islands	Argyll and Bute Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber Moray Orkney Ross, Skye and Inverness West Shetland Western Isles
Lothians	Edinburgh Central Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Edinburgh North and Leith Edinburgh Pentlands Edinburgh South Edinburgh West Linlithgow Livingston Midlothian
Mid Scotland and Fife	Central Fife Dunfermline East Dunfermline West Kirkcaldy North East Fife North Tayside Ochil Perth Stirling
North East Scotland	Aberdeen Central Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Angus Banff and Buchan Dundee East Dundee West Gordon West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
South of Scotland	Ayr Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Clydesdale Cunninghame South Dumfries East Lothian Galloway and Upper Nithsdale Roxburgh and Berwickshire Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale
West of Scotland	Clydebank and Milngavie Cunninghame North Dumbarton Eastwood Greenock and Inverclyde Paisley North Paisley South Strathkelvin and Bearsden West Renfrewshire

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