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The 1994 Fife Regional Council election, the sixth and final election to Fife Regional Council, was held on 5 May 1994 as part of the wider 1994 Scottish regional elections. The election saw Labour maintaining their control of the region's 46 seat council.
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| Labour | 28 |  2 | 60.9 | 42.7 | 52,926 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | 12 |  2 | 26.1 | 21.6 | 26,768 | ||||
| SNP | 4 | 2 | 8.7 | 20.9 | 25,902 | ||||
| Independent | 1 |  0 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3,355 | ||||
| Communist (Scotland) | 1 | 0 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 1,717 | ||||
| Conservative | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9.8 | 12,179 | |||
| Independent Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 892 | |||
| Scottish Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 114 | |||
| Christian Democrat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 32 | |||
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