Mid Fife and Glenrothes (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Mid Fife and Glenrothes
county constituency for the Scottish Parliament
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Mid Fife and Glenrothes shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	2011
Party	Scottish National Party
MSP	Jenny Gilruth
Council area	Fife

Mid Fife and Glenrothes 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, 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.

Created in 2011, the constituency comprises most of the previous Central Fife constituency which was abolished for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

Electoral region

See also: Mid Scotland and Fife (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, North East Fife, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and Stirling.

The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area and all of the Stirling council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area

Fife is represented in the Scottish Parliament by five constituencies, Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes and North East Fife.

The seat of Mid Fife and Glenrothes is formed from the following electoral wards:

• Glenrothes West and Kinglassie, Glenrothes North, Leslie and Markinch, Glenrothes Central and Thornton, Leven, Kennoway and Largo

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	2011	Tricia Marwick	Presiding Officer (elected as Scottish National Party)
	2016	Jenny Gilruth	Scottish National Party

Election results

Scottish Parliament election, 2016: Mid Fife and Glenrothes

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Jenny Gilruth	15,555	54.49	+2.19
	Labour	Kay Morrison	7,279	25.5	-10.88
	Conservative	Alex Stewart-Clark	4,427	15.51	+9.14
	Liberal Democrats	Jane-Ann Liston	1,286	4.5	+2.11
Majority			8,276	28.99	+13.09
Turnout			26,313	53.8	+4.6
	SNP hold		Swing	+2.2%

Scottish Parliament election, 2011: Mid Fife and Glenrothes

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP	Tricia Marwick	13,761	52.3	+7.9
	Labour	Claire Baker	9,573	36.4	+1.1
	Conservative	Allan Smith	1,676	6.4	-2.5
	Scottish Senior Citizens	Jim Parker	673	2.6	n/a
	Liberal Democrats	Callum Leslie	630	2.4	-8.9
Majority			4,188	15.9	+6.8
Turnout			26,313	48.6
	SNP hold		Swing	+3.4%

Scottish Parliament election, 2007 Notional Result: Mid Fife and Glenrothes

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SNP		11,188	44.4
	Labour		8,905	35.3
	Liberal Democrats		2,841	11.3
	Conservative		2,240	8.9
Majority			2,283	9.1

Preceded by Galloway and Upper Nithsdale

Constituency or Region represented by the Presiding Officer 2011-2016

Succeeded by West Scotland