"Iain Smith (Scottish politician) Iain Smith (born 1 May 1960) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and was Member of the Scottish Parliament for North East Fife until defeated by the SNP's Rod Campbell in 2011. Smith was educated at Bell Baxter High School in Cupar, Fife before reading Politics and Economics at Newcastle University. Prior to entering Parliament, Smith worked for Northumberland County Council, managed an Advice Centre in Dundee and was Constituency Assistant to North East Fife MP, Sir Menzies Campbell. Simultaneously, he was a Councillor and Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Fife Council 1986 to 1999."
"North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency) North East Fife is a county constituency in Fife, Scotland, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Stephen Gethins since 2015. At the 2017 General Election, two votes separated the SNP and the Liberal Democrat candidates out of 41,822 cast. The seat became the most marginal nationally. 1983-2005: North East Fife District. 2005-present: The area of the Fife Council other than those parts in the constituencies of Dunfermline and West Fife, Glenrothes, and Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. North East Fife constituency is in the region of Fife in Scotland. Fife has"
"2005 the ward of Leven East was incorporated into this constituency from what was Central Fife. North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency) North East Fife is a county constituency in Fife, Scotland, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Stephen Gethins since 2015. At the 2017 General Election, two votes separated the SNP and the Liberal Democrat candidates out of 41,822 cast. The seat became the most marginal nationally. 1983-2005: North East Fife District. 2005-present: The area of the Fife Council other than those parts in the constituencies of Dunfermline and West Fife, Glenrothes, and Kirkcaldy"
"Fife, since 2001, when he succeeded Henry McLeish. Willie Hamilton had previously represented the area, which has elected Labour MPs since Hamilton won West Fife from the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1950. The poll followed a run of poor by-election results for the Labour Party, which included a loss to the Scottish National Party (SNP) in Glasgow East, formerly the party's twenty-fifth safest seat in Britain. Glenrothes has a considerably smaller Labour majority than Glasgow East had. According to the ""Financial Times"", Labour privately admitted that they expected to lose Glenrothes to the SNP. ""The Guardian"" described the"
"etc.) and three planning committees. Following the May 2017 council elections no party was in overall control, resulting in a Power Sharing Agreement being drawn up between the Scottish National Party (SNP) and the Labour group to share control equally. David Alexander (SNP) and David Ross (Labour) were agreed as co-leaders of the council. A Provost of Fife is elected every five years, who chairs the full council meetings and acts in a ceremonial capacity on behalf of the council. The current Provost is former football manager Jim Leishman MBE, who was first elected in May 2012. Immediately following the"
"once part of the Fife coalfield, on the north bank of the Firth of Forth. The region has economic troubles, and the closure of the Rosyth naval base and the troubles at the naval dockyard have not helped. Statistically, this was one of Labour’s safest seats in Scotland. In the House of Commons, there has been a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for the area since 1950. Gordon Brown, the former Prime Minister, was MP for the Dunfermline East Westminster constituency from 1983 to 2005. He is now MP for the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, where his majority at the"
"Chairman of Belgrave Capital Management in London, and was for many years a Director of Kingdom FM Radio Ltd., Fife, and Advisor to the Board of Elmwood College in Cupar (2012). John Purvis John Robert Purvis, CBE (born 6 July 1938, St Andrews, Fife) is a former Conservative MEP for Mid Scotland and Fife (1979-1984) and from 1999 to 2009 was one of Scotland's seven MEPs. Purvis is married with three children and ten grandchildren. He has farming and property interests in North East Fife and has extensive knowledge of the international financial services industry, having worked in the sector"
"Central Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency) Central Fife was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected 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. The former First Minister Henry McLeish represented the constituency from 1999 to 2003. From the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, Central Fife was redrawn and renamed Mid"
"was seen as a safe Labour seat. However, he lost the seat to Labour's Thomas Docherty at the 2010 general election. Douglas Chapman won the seat in the SNP's Scottish landslide in General Election 2015. This constituency was formed in 2005 from all of the old Dunfermline West and parts of the old Dunfermline East constituencies. Rosyth and Inverkeithing in the southeast are the only large population centres on the coast. To the north and west of Dunfermline is more rugged and robust Fife countryside. The whole seat is up against the Firth of Forth. Rachel Squire (Labour) was the"
"North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency) North East Fife is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. 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. The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and"
"of Fife Regional Council in 1974. On 18 May, the two largest parties of the new council, the SNP and Scottish Labour, signed a Power Sharing Agreement to co-run an administration. David Alexander (SNP) and David Ross (Labour) were made co-leaders, and Jim Leishman remained in his role as Provost. The SNP replaced Labour as the biggest party; although without a majority it ended Labour's 37-year-long control of the council. The Conservatives increased its number of councillors from 1 to 8, their highest since 1984, while the Scottish Green Party also made a couple of gains to reach their highest"
"The Council meetings take place in Fife House (formerly known as Glenrothes House) in the town centre. The west wing of the building was built by the Glenrothes Development Corporation (GDC) as their offices in 1969, which was later used as the headquarters of Fife Regional Council. The former administrative seat was Cupar. Since the last Scottish election in 2012, Fife Council has been run as a minority by the Labour party, with a total of 35 seats, with support of Tory and independent councillors. Alex Rowley was elected leader of Fife Council but demitted office following his election as"
"External Relations Committee and the Justice Committee. In the 2016 Campbell finished second to Willie Rennie and was not elected. Roderick Campbell Roderick Alexander McRobie Campbell (born 15 June 1953) is SNP politician, who was formerly the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Fife constituency 2011−2016. Campbell was born on 15 June 1953 in Edinburgh. He was educated at Reading School and graduated from Exeter University with a BA (Hons) in politics. He received a LL.M in human rights law from the University of Strathclyde. Campbell first qualified as a solicitor, in both England and Wales"
"honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In 2010 it was reported that Campbell had been considered for the post of High Commissioner to Australia; ""The Guardian"" claimed it had been stalled as it would trigger a by-election in Campbell's constituency. Menzies Campbell Walter Menzies Campbell, Baron Campbell of Pittenweem, (; born 22 May 1941), often known as Ming Campbell, is a British Liberal Democrat politician, advocate and former athlete. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife from 1987 to 2015 and was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2 March 2006 until 15 October 2007."
"1 DJ Edith Bowman. Anstruther has also become known as the base for the Fence Collective, a network of nu-folk musicians. Traditionally, the two Anstruthers returned a single member of Parliament together with Kilrenny, Pittenweem, St Andrews, Cupar, and Crail. Anstruther is in the North East Fife UK Parliament constituency (MP is currently Stephen Gethins of the Scottish National Party) and the North East Fife Scottish Parliament constituency. In the 2017 General Election Stephen Gethins MP retained his seat by a majority of only two votes. There were three recounts. The narrowly defeated candidate was Lib Dem Elizabeth Riches, a"
"East Fife (UK Parliament constituency) East Fife was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1983. Along with West Fife, it was formed by dividing the old Fife constituency. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system, and from 1886 to 1918 it was the seat of the Liberal Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith. In 1885, the constituency comprised the parishes of Abdie, Abernethy, Anstruther Wester, Anstruther Easter, Auchtermuchty, Balmerino, Cameron, Carnbee, Ceres, Collessie, Crail, Creich, Cults, Cupar, Dairsie, Dunbog, Dunino, Elie, Falkland, Ferry-Port-on-Craig,"
"his former constituency, in June 2007. His elder son John, born 1944, succeeded him in the baronetcy. Sir John Gilmour, 3rd Baronet Colonel Sir John Edward Gilmour, 3rd Baronet, DSO, TD, DL (24 October 1912 – 1 June 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for East Fife for 18 years, from 1961 to 1979. He was also a soldier, farmer and landowner, and a company director and building society vice-president. Gilmour was born in Glasgow. His mother died when he was seven. His grandfather, Sir John Gilmour, 1st Baronet was chairman of the Scottish"
"after Jamie Reed announced his resignation, Docherty put his name forward to stand in the following by-election. Thomas Docherty (politician) Thomas Docherty (born 28 January 1975) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline and West Fife from 2010 until 2015. Before becoming an MP Docherty was an Account Director with a communications consultancy, having previously worked for Network Rail, BNFL and as a research assistant to Scott Barrie, the former MSP for Dunfermline West. Thomas Docherty was elected as the Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife in the May 2010"
"candidate from the Mid Scotland and Fife list, Fife Councillor Jayne Baxter (Cowdenbeath). John Park (politician) John William Park (born 14 September 1973) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and was elected a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region in May 2007. Park resigned his seat with effect from 7 December 2012 and was succeeded by Jayne Baxter. Park was formerly a trade union official working for Unite (formerly Amicus and the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union) and the Scottish TUC. He started working in Rosyth Dockyard in 1989 as an electrical apprentice."
"Council from 1998. She represented a ward in Kirkcaldy as a councillor, and still lives in the town, which is just outside the Fife Central constituency. Her constituency office was based in Glenrothes, adjacent to Fife Council's headquarters. In 2007 she lost her constituency to SNP politician Tricia Marwick. Christine May Christine May (born 23 March 1948, Dublin) is a Labour Co-operative politician, and was Member of the Scottish Parliament for Fife Central constituency from 2003 to 2007. Raised and educated in Dublin, Christine worked in the catering industry in Dublin and then London, and first moved to Scotland in"
"Roderick Campbell Roderick Alexander McRobie Campbell (born 15 June 1953) is SNP politician, who was formerly the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Fife constituency 2011−2016. Campbell was born on 15 June 1953 in Edinburgh. He was educated at Reading School and graduated from Exeter University with a BA (Hons) in politics. He received a LL.M in human rights law from the University of Strathclyde. Campbell first qualified as a solicitor, in both England and Wales and Scotland, and rose to become partner in a multinational firm of lawyers based in London. In 2008 he was"
"of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system. The constituency is represented by Stephen Gethins, MP of the Scottish National Party. For the purposes of the Scottish Parliament, Cupar forms part of the North East Fife constituency. The North East Fife Scottish Parliament (or ""Holyrood"") constituency created in 1999 is one of nine within the ""Mid Scotland and Fife"" electoral region. Each constituency elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) and the region elects seven additional members to produce a form of proportional representation. The constituency is represented by Rod Campbell for the SNP. At EU"
"2007 Holyrood Parliament elections. In the 2010 general election, the Labour candidate Thomas Docherty won the seat back. In the 2015 General Election the seat was won by the SNP's Douglas Chapman. Dunfermline and West Fife (UK Parliament constituency) Dunfermline and West Fife is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from all of the old Dunfermline West and parts of the old Dunfermline East constituencies. The current MP is Douglas Chapman of the Scottish National Party (SNP). The Dunfermline and West Fife"
"1975 the town was governed by a council, provost and baillies. In 1975, St Andrews came under Fife Regional Council and North East Fife District Council. The latter was abolished when a single-tier authority was introduced in 1996 as Fife Council based in Glenrothes. St Andrews forms part of the North East Fife constituency, electing one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by the first past the post system. The constituency is represented by Stephen Gethins, MP of the Scottish National Party. For the purposes of the Scottish Parliament, St"
"Left Alliance (Scotland) The Left Alliance was a small political group in Fife, Scotland. The Left Alliance had two out of 78 seats on Fife Council. They were Willie Clarke, who represents Ballingry and Lochore, and Alexander Maxwell, who represented Cowdenbeath. Clarke is a member of the Communist Party of Scotland and Maxwell was a member of Democratic Left Scotland. Both seats are part of the former Fife coalfield and were in the past held by predessor organisation, the Communist Party of Great Britain. In 2016 Willie Clarke still represented Ballingry sponsored by the Communist Party of Scotland, although he"
"the River Tay on its northern coast, and the Firth of Forth to the south. The famous golf and university town of St Andrews is the major settlement in the seat. Others include Cupar, Newport-on-Tay, Newburgh, Auchtermuchty, and Anstruther. North East Fife was the most marginal result in the whole country at the 2017 general election, with incumbent SNP MP Stephen Gethins seeing his majority cut from 4,344 votes (9.6%) to just 2 votes (0.0%) ahead of the Liberal Democrats, the most marginal result in a constituency in the UK since the result in Winchester at the 1997 general election,"
"cited in the Hungarian weekly newspaper ""Magyar Narancs"". UK Parliament elections Welsh Assembly elections (Additional members region; party list) European Parliament elections (Multi-member constituency; party list) Nick Griffin Nicholas John Griffin (born 1 March 1959) is a British politician who represented North West England as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014. He served as chairman and then president of the far-right British National Party (BNP) from 1999 to 2014, when he was expelled from the party. Born in Barnet, Griffin was educated at Woodbridge School in Suffolk. He joined the National Front at the age"
"were once coal and linoleum, but nowadays Glenrothes is a centre for the electronics and off-shore oil industries. <br> Central Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency) Central Fife was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elected 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. The former First Minister Henry McLeish represented"
"slightly enlarged. From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, the reshaped North East Fife constituency was formed from the following electoral wards: North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency) North East Fife is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. 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. The other eight constituencies of the"
"and St. Rule's Tower. Fife is represented by five constituency members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) and four members of the United Kingdom parliament (MPs) who are sent to Holyrood and the British Parliament respectively. Since the 2015 General Election, all four of the MPs constituencies have been held by the Scottish National Party. Three of the Scottish Parliament constituencies are held by the Scottish National Party: Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Fife Mid and Glenrothes. One is held by the Scottish Liberal Democrats: North East Fife. Fife Council's administrative headquarters and Police Scotland's P Division (formerly Fife Constabulary) are based in Glenrothes."
"Christine May Christine May (born 23 March 1948, Dublin) is a Labour Co-operative politician, and was Member of the Scottish Parliament for Fife Central constituency from 2003 to 2007. Raised and educated in Dublin, Christine worked in the catering industry in Dublin and then London, and first moved to Scotland in 1984, where she became a college lecturer. She was elected to the Fife Central seat after former First Minister Henry McLeish stood down as MSP following a scandal relating to the sub-letting of his constituency office – dubbed ""Officegate"" by the media. She had previously been leader of Fife"
"May 2017 election, the council was composed of the following parties: The Conservatives made significant gains and, while the SNP lost its leader on the council, Neale Hanvey, it ended up as the largest party. The SNP and Labour agreed to govern in coalition, with joint council leaders. Following the May 2012 election, the council was composed as follows: Labour ran a minority administration. Fife Council Fife Council is the local authority for the Fife area of Scotland and is the third largest Scottish council, with 75 elected council members. Councillors are generally elected every five years. At the 2012"
"2011, however he resigned after being convicted of assault charges in 2013. This led to the Dunfermline by-election, 2013, in which Labour's Cara Hilton was elected, defeating the SNP's Shirley-Anne Somerville. However Somerville subsequently ousted Hilton in the 2016 election. The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Cowdenbeath, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, 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"