Central Fife | |
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Former County constituency for the House of Commons | |
Subdivisions of Scotland | Fife |
1974–2005 | |
Created from | West Fife |
Replaced by | Glenrothes North East Fife |
Central Fife was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from February 1974 until 2005, when it was largely replaced by the new Glenrothes constituency, with a small portion joining the expanded North East Fife.
It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
The burghs of Cowdenbeath, Leslie, Lochgelly, and Markinch, the districts of Glenrothes and Lochgelly, and the electoral divisions of Markinch North and Markinch South in the district of Kirkcaldy.[1]
The Kirkcaldy District electoral divisions of:
The Kirkcaldy District electoral divisions of:
Election | Member [2] | Party | |
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Feb 1974 | Willie Hamilton | Labour | |
1987 | Henry McLeish | Labour | |
2001 | John MacDougall | Labour | |
2005 | constituency abolished |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Willie Hamilton | 24,418 | 53.3 | ||
SNP | David Veitch Livingstone | 10,324 | 22.5 | ||
Conservative | Stephen Ronald Eyres | 9,098 | 19.8 | ||
Communist | Alexander Maxwell | 2,019 | 4.4 | ||
Majority | 14,094 | 30.8 | |||
Turnout | 45,859 | 79.2 | |||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Willie Hamilton | 22,400 | 51.9 | −1.4 | |
SNP | David Veitch Livingstone | 14,414 | 33.4 | +10.9 | |
Conservative | Peter Derek Clarke | 5,308 | 12.3 | −7.5 | |
Communist | Alexander Maxwell | 1,040 | 2.4 | −2.0 | |
Majority | 7,986 | 18.5 | -12.3 | ||
Turnout | 43,162 | 73.9 | -5.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Hamilton | 27,619 | 58.0 | +6.1 | |
Conservative | Iain Allistair McCrone | 9,597 | 20.2 | +7.9 | |
SNP | James Lynch | 9,208 | 19.4 | −14.0 | |
Communist | Alexander Maxwell | 1,172 | 2.5 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 18,022 | 37.8 | +19.3 | ||
Turnout | 47,596 | 77.4 | +3.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Willie Hamilton | 17,008 | 43.1 | -11.2 | |
Liberal | Teresa Little | 9,214 | 23.4 | New | |
Conservative | Douglas Mason | 8,863 | 22.5 | 0.0 | |
SNP | James Taggart | 4,039 | 10.2 | -12.3 | |
Ecology | David Allison | 297 | 0.8 | New | |
Majority | 7,794 | 19.7 | |||
Turnout | 39,421 | 72.5 | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Henry McLeish | 22,827 | 53.4 | +10.3 | |
Conservative | Richard Aird | 7,118 | 16.7 | −5.8 | |
Liberal | Teresa Little | 6,487 | 15.2 | −8.2 | |
SNP | Dan Hood | 6,296 | 14.7 | +4.5 | |
Majority | 15,709 | 36.7 | +17.0 | ||
Turnout | 42,728 | 72.6 | +0.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +8.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Henry McLeish | 21,036 | 50.4 | −3.0 | |
SNP | Tricia Marwick | 10,458 | 25.1 | +10.4 | |
Conservative | Carol Cender | 7,353 | 17.6 | +0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Craig Harrow | 2,892 | 6.9 | −8.3 | |
Majority | 10,578 | 25.3 | −11.4 | ||
Turnout | 41,739 | 74.3 | +1.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Henry McLeish | 23,912 | 58.7 | +7.9 | |
SNP | Tricia Marwick | 10,199 | 25.0 | -0.1 | |
Conservative | Jacob Rees-Mogg | 3,669 | 9.0 | −8.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ross Laird | 2,610 | 6.4 | −0.5 | |
Referendum | John Scrymgeour-Wedderburn | 375 | 0.9 | New | |
Majority | 13,713 | 33.7 | +8.4 | ||
Turnout | 40,765 | 69.8 | -4.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John MacDougall | 18,310 | 56.3 | −2.4 | |
SNP | David Alexander | 8,235 | 25.3 | +0.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Riches | 2,775 | 8.5 | +2.1 | |
Conservative | Jeremy Balfour | 2,351 | 7.2 | −1.8 | |
Scottish Socialist | Morag Balfour | 841 | 2.6 | New | |
Majority | 10,075 | 31.0 | -2.7 | ||
Turnout | 32,512 | 54.6 | −15.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |