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1999 Elections to Fife Council were held on 6 May 1999, the same day as the other Scottish local government elections and the Scottish Parliament election. The elections were the first after the third boundary review which resulted in 78 individual councillors being elected.
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| Labour | 43 | 9 |  9 | 55.1 | 38.8 | 60,891 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | 21 | 3 | 3 | 22.3 | 35,074 | ||||
| SNP | 9 |  0 | 26.8 | 42,110 | |||||
| Independent | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2.2 | 3.489 | |||
| Conservative | 1 | 1 |  1 | 1.3 | 7.1 | 11,191 | |||
| Communist (Scotland) | 1 | 0 | 1,628 | 1.0 | |||||
| Democratic Left | 1 | 1,519 | 1.0 | ||||||
| Independent Labour | 0 | 0.0 | 990 | 0.6 | |||||
| Scottish Socialist | 0 | 0.0 | 34 | 0.0 | |||||
| Christian Independents | 0 | 0.0 | 46 | 0.0 | |||||
Turnout was 56.1%
Labour performed very well continuing control of its majority on the Council.
Boundary Commission for Scotland had its Third review in to the ward area for Fife Area. The resulting changes lead to 14 fewer wards. [1]
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