Central Fife (UK Parliament constituency)

Not to be confused with Central Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency).

Central Fife
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
Subdivisions of Scotland	Fife
1974 (1974)–2005
Replaced by	Glenrothes North East Fife
Created from	West 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.

Boundaries

1974-1983: The Burghs of Cowdenbeath, Leslie, Lochgelly, and Markinch; the Districts of Glenrothes and Lochgelly; and the District of Kirkcaldy electoral divisions of Markinch North and Markinch South.

1983-1997: The Kirkcaldy District electoral divisions of Denbeath/Aberhill; Mountfleurie/Methilhill/Methil North; Leven; Kennoway/Windygates; Leslie/Markinch Star; Auchmuty/Woodside; Pitteuchar/Stenton/Balgonie; South Parks/Rimbleton; and Southwood/Caskieberran.

1997-2005: The Kirkcaldy District electoral divisions of Methil, Denbeath and Muiredge; Methilhill and Mountfleurie; Leven; Kennoway and Windygates; Markinch, Pitcoudie and Star; Auchmuty, Woodside and Coaltown of Balgonie; Pitleuchar and Stenton; Rimbleton and South Parks; Glenwood and Newcastle; and Leslie and Collydean.

Members of Parliament

	Member ^[1]	Party
Feb 1974	Willie Hamilton	Labour
1987	Henry McLeish	Labour
2001	John MacDougall	Labour
2005	constituency abolished

Elections

Elections of the 1970s

General Election February 1974: Central Fife^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Willie Hamilton	24,418	53.3	N/A
	SNP	David Veitch Livingstone	10,324	22.5	N/A
	Conservative	Stephen Ronald Eyres	9,098	19.8	N/A
	Communist	Alexander Maxwell	2,019	4.4	N/A
Majority			14,094	30.7	N/A
Turnout			45,859	79.2	N/A
	Labour win (new seat)

General Election October 1974: Central Fife^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Willie Hamilton	22,400	51.9	−1.4
	SNP	David Veitch Livingstone	14,414	33.4	+7.9
	Conservative	Peter Derek Clarke	5,308	12.3	−7.5
	Communist	Alexander Maxwell	1,040	2.4	−2.0
Majority			7,986	18.5
Turnout			43,162	73.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1979: Central Fife^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	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	37.9
Turnout			47,596	77.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 1980s

General Election 1983: Central Fife^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Willie Hamilton	17,008	43.1
	Liberal	Mrs. Teresa Martin Little	9,214	23.4	N/A
	Conservative	Douglas Calder Mason	8,863	22.5
	SNP	James Hand Taggart	4,039	10.2
	Ecology	David Alisdair Allison	297	0.8	N/A
Majority			7,794	19.8
Turnout			39,421	72.5
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1987: Central Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Henry McLeish	22,827	53.4	+10.3
	Conservative	Richard Erskine Aird	7,118	16.7	−5.8
	Liberal	Mrs. Teresa Martin Little	6,487	15.2	−8.2
	SNP	Dan Hood	6,296	14.7	+4.5
Majority			15,709	36.8	+17.0
Turnout			42,728	72.6
	Labour hold		Swing	+8.0

Elections of the 1990s

General Election 1992: Central Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Henry McLeish	21,036	50.4	−3.0
	SNP	Tricia Marwick	10,458	25.1	+10.3
	Conservative	Mrs. Carol Ellen Cender	7,353	17.6	+1.0
	Liberal Democrat	Craig Thomas Alexander Harrow	2,892	6.9	−8.3
Majority			10,578	25.3	−11.4
Turnout			41,739	74.3
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

General Election 1997: Central Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	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 Democrat	Ross Laird	2,610	6.4	−0.5
	Referendum	John Frederick Scrymgeour-Wedderburn	375	0.9	N/A
Majority			13,713	33.6	+8.3
Turnout			40,765	69.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 2000s

General Election 2001: Central Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	John William MacDougall	18,310	56.3	−2.3
	SNP	David John Hogg Alexander	8,235	25.3	+0.3
	Liberal Democrat	Mrs. Elizabeth Riches	2,775	8.5	+2.1
	Conservative	Jeremy Ross Balfour	2,351	7.2	−1.8
	Scottish Socialist	Ms. Morag Anne Balfour	841	2.6	N/A
Majority			10,075	31.0
Turnout			32,512	54.6	−15.3
	Labour hold		Swing

References

Westminster constituencies of Scotland

1708 to 1832 1832 to 1868 1868 to 1885 1885 to 1918 1918 to 1950 1950 to 1955 1955 to 1974 1974 to 1983 1983 to 1997 1997 to 2005

Current constituencies (2005 to present)

Aberdeen North Aberdeen South Airdrie & Shotts Angus Argyll & Bute Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock Banff & Buchan Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross Central Ayrshire Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill Cumbernauld, Kilsyth & Kirkintilloch East Dumfries & Galloway Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale Dundee East Dundee West Dunfermline & West Fife East Dunbartonshire East Kilbride, Strathaven & Lesmahagow East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh East Edinburgh North & Leith Edinburgh South Edinburgh South West Edinburgh West Falkirk Glasgow Central Glasgow East Glasgow North Glasgow North East Glasgow North West Glasgow South Glasgow South West Glenrothes Gordon Inverclyde Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey Kilmarnock & Loudoun Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath Lanark & Hamilton East Linlithgow & East Falkirk Livingston Midlothian Moray Motherwell & Wishaw Na h-Eileanan an Iar North Ayrshire & Arran North East Fife Ochil & South Perthshire Orkney & Shetland Paisley & Renfrewshire North Paisley & Renfrewshire South Perth & North Perthshire Ross, Skye & Lochaber Rutherglen & Hamilton West Stirling West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine West Dunbartonshire

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