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North East Fife is a constituency
United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
 of the Scottish Parliament
Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the Devolution national, Unicameralism legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood, Edinburgh area of the capital Edinburgh....
 (Holyrood
Scottish Parliament Building

The Scottish Parliament Building is the home of the Scotland Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh, within the World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh....
). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP)
Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament....
 by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region
Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions

Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions were first used in 1999, in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election of the Scottish Parliament , created by the Scotland Act 1998....
, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation
Proportional representation

Proportional representation , sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of voting systems aimed at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive ....
 for the region as a whole.

See also Mid Scotland and Fife Scottish Parliament region


The other eight constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Dunfermline East
Dunfermline East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline East is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Dunfermline West
Dunfermline West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline West is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Fife Central
Fife Central (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Central Fife is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Kirkcaldy is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Ochil
Ochil (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Ochil is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Perth
Perth (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Perth is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Stirling
Stirling (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Stirling is a Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
 and Tayside North
Tayside North (Scottish Parliament constituency)

North Tayside is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
.

The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area
Clackmannanshire

Clackmannanshire and sometimes called Clacks is one of the 32 Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, bordering Perth and Kinross, Stirling and Fife....
, all of the Fife council area
Fife

Fife is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire....
, all of the Perth and Kinross council area
Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of Council Areas of Scotland in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire , Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling , Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas....
, all of the Stirling council area
Stirling (council area)

Stirling is one of the 32 unitary Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about 85,000. It was created under the Local Government etc Act 1994 with the boundaries of the Stirling district of the former Central Regions and districts of Scotland, and it covers most of the former county of Stirling and...
 and parts of the Angus council area
Angus

Angus is one of the 32 Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. The council area borders onto Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and the Dundee City....
.

Constituency boundaries and council area
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999
Scottish Parliament election, 1999

The Scottish Parliament election, 1999 was the first general election of the Scottish Parliament, with voting taking place on 6 May 1999. Following the election, the Scottish Labour Party and the Scottish Liberal Democrats formed the Scottish Executive, with Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament Donald Dewar becoming First Minister....
, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster
Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom meet....
 (House of Commons) constituency.






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North East Fife is a constituency
United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
 of the Scottish Parliament
Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the Devolution national, Unicameralism legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood, Edinburgh area of the capital Edinburgh....
 (Holyrood
Scottish Parliament Building

The Scottish Parliament Building is the home of the Scotland Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh, within the World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh....
). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP)
Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament....
 by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region
Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions

Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions were first used in 1999, in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election of the Scottish Parliament , created by the Scotland Act 1998....
, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation
Proportional representation

Proportional representation , sometimes referred to as full representation, is a category of voting systems aimed at a close match between the percentage of votes that groups of candidates obtain in elections and the percentage of seats they receive ....
 for the region as a whole.

Electoral region

See also Mid Scotland and Fife Scottish Parliament region


The other eight constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Dunfermline East
Dunfermline East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline East is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Dunfermline West
Dunfermline West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline West is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Fife Central
Fife Central (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Central Fife is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Kirkcaldy is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Ochil
Ochil (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Ochil is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Perth
Perth (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Perth is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Stirling
Stirling (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Stirling is a Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
 and Tayside North
Tayside North (Scottish Parliament constituency)

North Tayside is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
.

The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area
Clackmannanshire

Clackmannanshire and sometimes called Clacks is one of the 32 Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, bordering Perth and Kinross, Stirling and Fife....
, all of the Fife council area
Fife

Fife is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire....
, all of the Perth and Kinross council area
Perth and Kinross

Perth and Kinross is one of Council Areas of Scotland in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire , Angus, Dundee City, Fife, Clackmannanshire, Stirling , Argyll and Bute and Highland council areas....
, all of the Stirling council area
Stirling (council area)

Stirling is one of the 32 unitary Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and has a population of about 85,000. It was created under the Local Government etc Act 1994 with the boundaries of the Stirling district of the former Central Regions and districts of Scotland, and it covers most of the former county of Stirling and...
 and parts of the Angus council area
Angus

Angus is one of the 32 Local government in Scotland council areas of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. The council area borders onto Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross and the Dundee City....
.

Constituency boundaries and council area


The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999
Scottish Parliament election, 1999

The Scottish Parliament election, 1999 was the first general election of the Scottish Parliament, with voting taking place on 6 May 1999. Following the election, the Scottish Labour Party and the Scottish Liberal Democrats formed the Scottish Executive, with Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament Donald Dewar becoming First Minister....
, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster
Palace of Westminster

The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom meet....
 (House of Commons) constituency. In 2005
United Kingdom general election, 2005

The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, with a reduced Majority government of 66....
, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies. The Fife North East Westminster constituency was slightly enlarged.

The Holyrood constituency of North East Fife is one of five Mid Scotland and Fife constituencies covering the Fife council area
Fife

Fife is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire....
, the others being Dunfermline East
Dunfermline East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline East is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Dunfermline West
Dunfermline West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dunfermline West is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
, Fife Central
Fife Central (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Central Fife is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
 and Kirkcaldy
Kirkcaldy (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Kirkcaldy is a United Kingdom constituencies of the Scottish Parliament . It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament by the First past the post method of election....
. All are entirely within the council area.

Fife North East covers a north-east portion of the council area, north-east of Fife Central.

Description of the constituency


The constituency includes the bustling market town of Cupar
Cupar

Cupar is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland. The town is approximately equidistant between the larger settlements of Dundee and Glenrothes....
 and the famous St Andrews
St Andrews

St Andrews is a town and former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife, Scotland. According to the recent population estimate , the town has a population of 16,596, making this the fifth largest settlement in Fife....
. It is a relatively prosperous, largely rural, lowland seat, on the coast, with successful livestock farming, fruit-growing and tourism interests. Unemployment is relatively low.

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