Mid Fife and Glenrothes
Mid Fife and Glenrothes |
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Educated |
2011 |
MP |
Jenny Gilruth ( SNP ) |
Regions |
Fife |
Mid Fife and Glenrothes is a constituency for the Scottish Parliament . It was newly created in 2011 as part of the constituency revision as one of nine constituencies in the electoral region of Mid Scotland and Fife . The areas were previously largely within the former constituency of Central Fife . The constituency of Mid Fife and Glenrothes comprises parts of the Fife Council Area with the cities of Glenrothes , Kennoway and Leven . The constituency sends a representative.
The constituency covers an area of 195.1 km 2 . In the 2011 census survey, a total of 69,972 people lived within its borders.
Election results
Parliamentary election 2011
Tricia Marwick was elected a member of the Scottish National Party . In order to maintain her neutrality in the context of her position as Presiding Officier of Parliament, she resigned from the party after the election.
Results of the 2011 general election | |||
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Political party | candidate | be right | % |
SNP | Tricia Marwick | 13,761 | 52.3 |
Labor | Claire Baker | 9573 | 36.4 |
Conservative | Allan Smith | 1676 | 6.4 |
All Scotland Pensioners Party | Jim Parker | 673 | 2.6 |
Liberal Democrats | Callum Leslie | 630 | 2.4 |
Turnout: 26,421 (49.2%) |
General election 2016
Results of the 2016 general election | ||||
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Political party | candidate | be right | % | ± |
SNP | Jenny Gilruth | 15,555 | 54.49 | +2.19 |
Labor | 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 |
Turnout: 26,313 (53.8%) |