Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

Mid Scotland and Fife
electoral region for the Scottish Parliament
Mid Scotland and Fife shown within Scotland
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

Map of boundaries from 2011

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.

Map	Constituency
	Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Cowdenbeath Dunfermline Kirkcaldy Mid Fife and Glenrothes North East Fife Perthshire North Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Stirling

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.

Map

Constituency

Dunfermline East covers a south-western portion of the Fife council area. Dunfermline West covers a south-western area of the Fife council area, west of Dunfermline East. Fife Central covers a central portion of the Fife council area. Fife North East covers a north-eastern portion of the Fife council area. Kirkcaldy covers a southern portion of the Fife council area. North Tayside covers a northern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, and a northern portion of the Angus council area. Ochil covers the Clackmannanshire council area, a south-eastern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, and a south-eastern portion of the Stirling council area. Perth covers a central portion of the Perth and Kinross council area. Stirling covers most of the Stirling council area.

Members of the Scottish Parliament

Constituency MSPs

Term	Election	Dunfermline East		Dunfermline West		Ochil		Fife Central		Kirkcaldy		Fife North East		North Tayside		Perth		Stirling
1st	1999		Helen Eadie (Labour)		Scott Barrie (Labour)		Richard Simpson (Labour)		Henry McLeish (Labour)		Marilyn Livingstone (Labour)		Iain Smith (LD)		John Swinney (SNP)		Roseanna Cunningham (SNP)		Sylvia Jackson (Labour)
2nd	2003						George Reid (SNP)		Christine May (SNP)
3rd	2007				Jim Tolson (Lib Dem)		Keith Brown (SNP)		Tricia Marwick (SNP)										Bruce Crawford (SNP)
Term	Election	Cowdenbeath		Dunfermline		Clackmannanshire and Dunblane		Mid Fife and Glenrothes		Kirkcaldy		North East Fife		Perthshire North		Perthshire South and Kinross-shire		Stirling
4th	2011		Helen Eadie (Labour)		Bill Walker (SNP) (later Independent)		Keith Brown (SNP)		Tricia Marwick (SNP)		David Torrance (SNP)		Roderick Campbell (SNP)		John Swinney (SNP)		Roseanna Cunningham (SNP)		Bruce Crawford (SNP)
	2013 by				Cara Hilton (Labour)
	2014 by		Alex Rowley (Labour)
5th	2016		Annabelle Ewing (SNP)		Shirley-Anne Somerville (SNP)				Jenny Gilruth (SNP)				Willie Rennie (Lib Dem)
6th	2021																Jim Fairlie (SNP)		Evelyn Tweed (SNP)

Regional List MSPs

N.B. This table is for presentation purposes only

Term	Election (Replacement date)	MSP		MSP		MSP		MSP		MSP		MSP		MSP
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)
	2001												Murdo Fraser (Conservative)
2nd	2003–07						Mark Ruskell (Green)				Ted Brocklebank (Conservative)
	2005								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	2016–21		Mark Ruskell (Green)		Alex Rowley (Labour)				Dean Lockhart (Conservative)		Alexander Stewart (Conservative)
6th	2021–
	2022								Roz McCall (Conservative)

Election results

Mid Scotland & Fife election results 1999-2021

2021 Scottish Parliament election

Constituency results

2021 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife
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]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	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	1.5
	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	0.2
	Labour	Claire Baker, Alex Rowley, Julie MacDougall, Craig Miller, Chris Kane, Ryan Smart, Ewan Dillon	52,626	15.3	2.3
	Scottish 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	2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Willie Rennie, Peter Barrett, Aude Boubaker-Calder, Julia Brown, Jane Liston, Fayzan Rehman, Aisha Mir	25,489	7.4	0.4
	Alba	Eva Comrie, Neale Hanvey, Jim Eadie, Stephanie Reilly	5,893	1.7	1.7
	All for Unity	Linda Holt, Imam Khan, Brian Henderson, Ian Stewart, James Glen, Graham Dawson, Michael Saint	2,578	0.7	0.7
	Scottish Family	Donald Marshall, Stephen Saunders, Davina Saunders, Anil Alexander, George Carratt, Linda Mair, Paul Lynch	1,920	0.6	0.6
	Abolish the Scottish Parliament	Ian Mann, John Duff	945	0.3	0.3
	Freedom Alliance	Lisa Brackenridge, Eren Sinclair, Stuart Cairns, Kathleen Elliott	837	0.2	0.2
	Scottish Libertarian	Calum Paul, George Morton	818	0.2	0.0
	Reform UK	Kenneth Morton, Victoria McCann, Otto Inglis, Alexander Black, Guy Addison, Karen Morton	808	0.2	0.2
	UKIP	Lynda Davis, Douglas Watters, George Cormack, Edward McNally	399	0.1	1.7
	Independent	Martin James Keatings	230	0.1	0.1
	Renew	Bruce Henderson, Stefan Diesing	99	0.0	0.0
	Independent	Mercy Mugure Kamanja	29	0.0	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
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
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
	Scottish 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
	Scottish 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
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
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
	Scottish 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	0.0
	Solidarity		0	0	202	0.1	-0.8

2007 Scottish Parliament election

In the 2007 Scottish Parliament election the region elected MSPs as follows:

• 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
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
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
	Scottish 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
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
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
	Scottish 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
Constituency		Elected member	Result
	Dunfermline East	Helen Eadie	Scottish Labour Party win (new seat)
	Dunfermline West	Scott Barrie	Scottish Labour Party win (new seat)
	Fife Central	Henry McLeish	Scottish Labour Party win (new seat)
	Fife North East	Iain Smith	Scottish Liberal Democrats win (new seat)
	Kirkaldy	Marilyn Livingstone	Scottish Labour Party win (new seat)
	North Tayside	John Swinney	Scottish National Party win (new seat)
	Ochil	Richard Simpson	Scottish Labour Party win (new seat)
	Perth	Roseanna Cunningham	Scottish National Party win (new seat)
	Stirling	Sylvia Jackson	Scottish Labour Party win (new seat)

Additional member results

1999 Scottish Parliament election: Mid Scotland and Fife
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
	Scottish 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

1. Scottish Parliamentary Constituency (SPC) Population Estimates (2011 Data Zone based), National Records of Scotland; retrieved 6 May 2021 (accompanying summary notes)
2. 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.
3. Council areas are as defined in 1996, and may be subject to change after the next Scottish Parliament election.
4. 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 6 April 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
5. "Elections 2021: Mid Scotland and Fife". BBC News. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.