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Central Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament

Summary

Region or constituency of the Scottish Parliament

Field	Value
name	Central Fife
type	county
constituency_link	Scottish Parliament constituencies and regions
parl_name	Scottish Parliament
image	[[File:Fife Central ScottishParliamentConstituency.PNG	200px]]
image2	[[File:Mid Scotland and Fife 1999 (Scottish Parliament electoral region).svg	200px]]
caption2	Central Fife shown within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
year	1999
abolished	2011
party_label	Party
member_label	MSP
local_council_label	Council area
local_council	Fife

Central Fife was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament. It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It was also one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elected seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole. From the 2011 Scottish Parliament election Central Fife was redrawn and renamed Mid Fife and Glenrothes.

The former First Minister Henry McLeish represented the constituency from 1999 to 2003.

Electoral region

The other eight initial constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region were; Dunfermline East, Dunfermline West, Fife North East, Kirkcaldy, Ochil, Perth, Stirling and Tayside North. The region covered 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.

Constituency boundaries and 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 UK House of Commons constituency. Ahead of the 2005 House of Commons constituencies in Scotland were mostly replaced with new constituencies.

The Scottish Parliament constituency of Central Fife was 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 were entirely within the council area. Fife Central covered a central portion of the council area, south-west of Fife North East, north of Kirkcaldy, and north-west of Dunfermline East.

Constituency profile

The constituency included 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.

Member of the Scottish Parliament

Election	Member	Party
Scottish Labour Party}}"		1999	Henry McLeish
Scottish Labour Party}}"		2003	Christine May
Scottish National Party}}"		2007	Tricia Marwick
	2011	Constituency abolished; see Mid Fife and Glenrothes

Election results

Footnotes

References

See [http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/ ''The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland''] {{webarchive. link. (September 21, 2007)

Wikipedia Source

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