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Mid Scotland and Fife is one of the eight electoral regions
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....
 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....
 which were created in 1999.






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Mid Scotland and Fife
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....
 electoral region
The Mid Scotland and Fife region
shown within Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
Created
1999
Current representation
Scottish National Party
Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party is a centre-left List of Scottish political parties which campaigns for Scottish independence. In the last few decades, the SNP has normally polled the second highest number of votes for a Scottish political parties in Scotland....
 		 6 MSPs
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....
Labour Party
Scottish Labour Party

Scottish Labour, often described as the Scottish Labour Party, is that part of the Labour Party which operates in Scotland. It is historically the largest List of political parties in Scotland in modern Politics of Scotland, having won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election since the 1960's, every Europe...
 		 5 MSPs
Conservative 3 MSP
Liberal Democrats
Scottish Liberal Democrats

The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the Federation structure of the Liberal Democrats; the others being the Liberal Democrats and the Welsh Liberal Democrats parties....
 		 2 MSPs
Constituencies
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....
 
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....
 
Fife North East
Fife North East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

North East 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....
 
North Tayside
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....
Council areas
Angus
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....
 (part)
Clackmannanshire
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....
 
Fife
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....
 
Perth and Kinross
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....
 (part)
Stirling
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...


Mid Scotland and Fife is one of the eight electoral regions
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....
 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....
 which were created in 1999. Nine of the parliament's 73 first past the post constituencies
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....
 are sub-divisions of the region and it elects seven of the 56 additional-member Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs)
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....
. Thus it elects a total of 16 MSPs.

The Mid Scotland and Fife region shares boundaries with the Central Scotland, West of Scotland, Highlands and Islands and North East Scotland regions, and is connected with the Lothians region by bridges across the Firth of Forth
Firth of Forth

The Firth of Forth is the estuary or firth of Scotland River Forth, where it flows into the North Sea between Fife to the north, and West Lothian, the City of Edinburgh, and East Lothian to the south....
.

Constituencies and council areas

The constituencies were created in 1999 with the names and boundaries of Westminster
Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislature in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories....
 constituencies, as existing in at that time. The Holyrood constituencies cover all of three council areas, 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....
, 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....
 and 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...
, most 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....
 and part 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....
.

The rest of the Angus council area is within the North East Scotland electoral region.

ConstituencyMap
  1. 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....
     covers a south-western portion of the Fife council area.
  2. 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....
     covers a south-western area of the Fife council area, west of Dunfermline East.
  3. 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....
     covers a central portion of the Fife council area.
  4. Fife North East
    Fife North East (Scottish Parliament constituency)

    North East 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....
     covers a north-eastern portion of the Fife council area.
  5. 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....
     covers a southern portion of the Fife council area.
  6. North Tayside covers a northern portion of the Perth and Kinross council area, and a northern portion of the Angus council area.
  7. 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....
     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.
  8. 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....
     covers a central portion of the Perth and Kinross council area.
  9. 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....
     covers most of the Stirling council area.


= Election results =

2007 Scottish Parliament election

In the 2007 Scottish Parliament election
Scottish Parliament election, 2007

The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament. It was the third general election to the devolved Scottish Parliament since it was created in 1999....
 the region elected MSPs as follows: In the 2003 Scottish Parliament election
Scottish Parliament election, 2003

The Scottish Parliament election, 2003, was the second general election of the Scottish Parliament. It was held on 1 May 2003 and it brought no change in terms of control of the Scottish Executive....
 the region elected MSPs as follows:
  • 6 Scottish National Party
    Scottish National Party

    The Scottish National Party is a centre-left List of Scottish political parties which campaigns for Scottish independence. In the last few decades, the SNP has normally polled the second highest number of votes for a Scottish political parties in Scotland....
     MSPs (five constituency members and one additional members)
  • 5 Labour
    Scottish Labour Party

    Scottish Labour, often described as the Scottish Labour Party, is that part of the Labour Party which operates in Scotland. It is historically the largest List of political parties in Scotland in modern Politics of Scotland, having won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election since the 1960's, every Europe...
     MSPs (two constituency members and three additional members)
  • 3 Conservative MSP (all additional members)
  • 2 Liberal Democrat
    Scottish Liberal Democrats

    The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the Federation structure of the Liberal Democrats; the others being the Liberal Democrats and the Welsh Liberal Democrats parties....
     MSPs (both constituency members)


Constituency results





Additional member results









2003 Scottish Parliament election

In the 2003 Scottish Parliament election
Scottish Parliament election, 2003

The Scottish Parliament election, 2003, was the second general election of the Scottish Parliament. It was held on 1 May 2003 and it brought no change in terms of control of the Scottish Executive....
 the region elected MSPs as follows:

  • 5 Labour
    Scottish Labour Party

    Scottish Labour, often described as the Scottish Labour Party, is that part of the Labour Party which operates in Scotland. It is historically the largest List of political parties in Scotland in modern Politics of Scotland, having won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election since the 1960's, every Europe...
     MSPs (all constituency members)
  • 5 Scottish National Party
    Scottish National Party

    The Scottish National Party is a centre-left List of Scottish political parties which campaigns for Scottish independence. In the last few decades, the SNP has normally polled the second highest number of votes for a Scottish political parties in Scotland....
     MSPs (3 constituency members and 2 additional members)
  • 3 Conservative MSP (all additional members)
  • 2 Liberal Democrat
    Scottish Liberal Democrats

    The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the Federation structure of the Liberal Democrats; the others being the Liberal Democrats and the Welsh Liberal Democrats parties....
     MSPs (one constituency member and one additional member)
  • 1 Green Party
    Scottish Green Party

    The Scottish Green Party is the Green party of Scotland. It currently has two Members of the Scottish Parliament in the devolved Scottish Parliament, Robin Harper, representing the Lothians, and Patrick Harvie, for Glasgow....
     MSP (additional member)


Constituency results



Additional member results



Changes:
  • Andrew Arbuckle
    Andrew Arbuckle

    Andrew Arbuckle is a Scotland Scottish Liberal Democrats politician, and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Scotland and Fife region....
     replaced Keith Raffan
    Keith Raffan

    Keith William Twort Raffan, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a former Conservative Member of Parliament and Scotland Liberal Democrats Members of the Scottish Parliament ....
    . Raffan resigned from the Parliament in January, 2005. Arbuckle was next on the Liberal Democrats' list.
  • Brian Monteith
    Brian Monteith

    Brian Monteith, born on 8 January 1958 is a Scotland politician, who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament from 1999 until 2007. Educated at Portobello, Scotland High School and Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, he worked in public relations before his election to the Scottish Parliament as a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party me...
     resigned from the Conservatives in July 2005, and served the remainder of the term as an Independent
    Independent (politician)

    In politics, an independent is a politician who is not affiliated with any political party. Independents may hold a Centrism viewpoint between those of major political parties, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do not feel that any major party addresses....
     MSP.


1999 Scottish Parliament election

In the 1999 Scottish Parliament election
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....
 the region elected MSPs as follows:

  • 6 Labour
    Scottish Labour Party

    Scottish Labour, often described as the Scottish Labour Party, is that part of the Labour Party which operates in Scotland. It is historically the largest List of political parties in Scotland in modern Politics of Scotland, having won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election since the 1960's, every Europe...
     MSPs (six constituency members)
  • 5 Scottish National Party
    Scottish National Party

    The Scottish National Party is a centre-left List of Scottish political parties which campaigns for Scottish independence. In the last few decades, the SNP has normally polled the second highest number of votes for a Scottish political parties in Scotland....
     MSPs (two constituency members three additional members)
  • 3 Conservative MSP (three additional members)
  • 2 Liberal Democrat
    Scottish Liberal Democrats

    The Scottish Liberal Democrats are one of the three state parties within the Federation structure of the Liberal Democrats; the others being the Liberal Democrats and the Welsh Liberal Democrats parties....
     MSPs (one constituency member and one additional member)


Constituency results



Additional member results



Changes:
  • Murdo Fraser
    Murdo Fraser

    Murdo Fraser is the deputy leader of the Scottish Conservative Party in the Scottish Parliament, and a member of the party's Shadow Cabinet. He has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Scotland and Fife region since 2001....
     replaced Nick Johnston
    Nick Johnston

    Nicholas Johnston is a Scotland politician....
    , who had resigned from the Parliament on August 10, 2001 due to ill health. Fraser was next on the Conservative and Unionist list.


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