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Central Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)
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| Central Fife Scottish Parliament county constituency |
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| Central Fife shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland |
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| Created: | 1999 |
| MSP: | Tricia Marwick |
| Party: | Scottish National Party |
| Council area: | Fife |
Central Fife is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) 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, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.
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The other eight constituencies of the South of Scotland region are Dunfermline East, Dunfermline West, Fife North East, Kirkcaldy, Ochil, Perth, Stirling and Tayside North.
The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area, all of the Stirling council area and parts of the Angus council area.
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing Westminster (House of Commons) constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies[1]. Most of the Fife Central Westminster constituency was merged into the Glenrothes constituency.
The Holyrood constituency of Fife Central is one of five Mid Scotland and Fife constituencies covering the Fife council area, the others being Dunfermline East, Dunfermline West, Fife North East and Kirkcaldy. All are entirely within the council area.
Fife Central covers a central portion of the council area, south-west of Fife North East, north of Kirkcaldy, and north-west of Dunfermline East.
The constituency includes the new town of Glenrothes and the industrial ports of Leven and Methil. The main industries in this region were once coal and linoleum, but nowadays Glenrothes is a centre for the electronics and off-shore oil industries. The area has a history of Labour representation but not a future.
| Election | Member | Party | |
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| 1999 | Henry McLeish | Labour | |
| 2003 | Christine May | ||
| 2007 | Tricia Marwick | Scottish National Party | |
| Scottish Parliament election, 2007: Central Fife | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Scottish National Party | Tricia Marwick | 11,920 | 44.2 | +13.6 | |
| Labour Party | Christine May | 10,754 | 39.9 | -1.5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Riches | 2,288 | 8.5 | +1.8 | |
| Conservative Party | Maurice Golden | 2,003 | 7.4 | +0.4 | |
| Majority | 1,166 | 4.3 | |||
| Turnout | 26,965 | 46.3 | +1.9 | ||
| Scottish National Party gain from Labour Party | Swing | 7.6 | |||
| Scottish Parliament election, 2003: Central Fife | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour Party | Christine May | 10,591 | 41.4 | -15.9 | |
| Scottish National Party | Tricia Marwick | 7,829 | 30.6 | -0.3 | |
| Independent | Andrew Rodger | 2,258 | 8.8 | +8.8 | |
| Conservative Party | James North | 1,803 | 7.0 | +1.2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Richies | 1,725 | 6.7 | +0.8 | |
| Scottish Socialist Party | Morag Balfour | 1,391 | 5.4 | +5.4 | |
| Majority | 2,762 | 10.8 | |||
| Turnout | 25,597 | 44.4 | |||
| Labour Party hold | Swing | -15.9 | |||
| Scottish Parliament election, 1999: Central Fife | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour Party | Henry McLeish | 18,828 | 57.31 | N/A | |
| Scottish National Party | Tricia Marwick | 10,153 | 30.91 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jane Ann Liston | 1,953 | 5.94 | N/A | |
| Conservative Party | Keith Harding | 1,918 | 5.84 | N/A | |
| Majority | 8,675 | 26.4 | |||
| Turnout | 32,852 | ||||
