Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of Fife Council. The ward elects four Councillors, covering the towns of Buckhaven and Methil, as well as the villages of East Wemyss, West Wemyss, and Coaltown of Wemyss.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Arthur Robertson (SNP) | Jim Young (Labour) | Tom Adams (Labour) | Andrew Roger (Ind.) | ||||
| 2012 | John O'Brien (SNP) | David Graham (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | Ryan Smart (Labour) | Ken Caldwell (SNP) | ||||||
| 2022 | Thomas Adams (Labour) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SNP | Ken Caldwell (incumbent) | 30% | 1,532 | ||||
| Labour | David Graham (incumbent) | 24.4% | 1,248 | ||||
| SNP | John O'Brien (incumbent) | 17.4% | 890 | 1,037.4 | |||
| Labour | Thomas Adams | 15.8% | 809 | 838.3 | 881.9 | 1,052.9 | |
| Conservative | Brian Mills | 6.5% | 330 | 333.3 | 336.6 | 343.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Celyn Ashworth | 2.3% | 117 | 119.3 | 127.3 | 130.4 | |
| Scottish Green | Jerome van Leeuwen | 2.2% | 113 | 124 | 193.6 | 196.7 | |
| Alba | Susan Blair | 1.3% | 66 | 75.7 | 99.9 | 102.3 | |
| Electorate: 13,540 Valid: 5,105 Spoilt: 136 Quota: 1,022 Turnout: 38.7% | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Labour | David Graham (incumbent) | 30.4 | 1,661 | |||||||||
| SNP | John O'Brien (incumbent) | 18.1 | 991 | 1,014.9 | 1,015.2 | 1,020.2 | 1,039.9 | 1,059.6 | 1,064.9 | 1,074.5 | 1,161.4 | |
| SNP | Ken Caldwell | 15.4 | 842 | 861.1 | 862.1 | 864.1 | 879.5 | 893.8 | 904.1 | 908.7 | 1,444.7 | |
| SNP | Leslie Bain | 11.6 | 635 | 646.6 | 648.9 | 653.3 | 664.3 | 673.6 | 682.9 | 686.7 | ||
| Conservative | Keith Barton | 9.3 | 507 | 520.3 | 522.9 | 535.4 | 539.7 | 567.04 | ||||
| Labour | Ryan Smart | 9.1 | 498 | 914.5 | 918.8 | 935.6 | 946.6 | 999.4 | 1,195.6 | |||
| Independent | Ronald Hunter | 2.5 | 137 | 148.3 | 184.9 | 195.9 | 214.9 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Stephen Ferguson | 1.4 | 78 | 83.5 | 93.1 | 100.5 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Rory Roberson | 1.1 | 62 | 69.5 | 70.5 | |||||||
| Independent | Eunice Cameron | 1.04 | 57 | 61.8 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 13,802 Valid: 5,468 Spoilt: 170 Quota: 1,094 Turnout: 5,638 (40.8%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Labour | David Graham | 28.2 | 1,430 | |||||||||
| Independent | Andrew Rodger (incumbent) | 25.79 | 1,307 | |||||||||
| SNP | John O'Brien | 16.38 | 830 | 859.7 | 902 | 902.9 | 907.1 | 915.2 | 915.6 | 967.3 | 1,394.5 | |
| Labour | Jim Young (incumbent) | 14.45 | 732 | 1,024.6 | ||||||||
| SNP | Arthur Robertson (incumbent) | 9.67 | 490 | 499.3 | 532.3 | 533 | 534 | 538.2 | 544 | 565.9 | ||
| Independent | Ricky Jannetta | 3.02 | 153 | 178 | 253.6 | 255 | 261.3 | 276.6 | 300.3 | |||
| Conservative | Keith Stanley Smith | 1.18 | 60 | 61.2 | 65.9 | 65.9 | 69.8 | 76.6 | ||||
| UKIP | Kris Seunarine | 0.87 | 44 | 46.3 | 54.2 | 54.4 | 57.2 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Lois Lothian | 0.41 | 21 | 23.3 | 26.9 | 27.2 | ||||||
| Electorate: 14,114 Valid: 5,067 Spoilt: 36 Quota: 1,014 Turnout: 5,160 (35.90%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Andrew Rodger | 2,114 | 33.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Tom Adams | 1,456 | 23.2 | 2 | 1 | |
| SNP | Arthur Robertson | 712 | 11.3 | 3 | 11 | |
| SNP | Stuart Macphail | 647 | 10.3 | |||
| Labour | Jim Young | 460 | 7.3 | 4 | 11 | |
| Independent | John O'Brien | 225 | 3.6 | |||
| Independent | Anne Marie Flack | 195 | 3.1 | |||
| Independent | Ricky Jannetta | 164 | 2.6 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Lois Lothian | 107 | 1.7 | |||
| Conservative | David Graham Stacey | 97 | 1.5 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Jim McLean | 53 | 0.8 | |||
| UKIP | Kris Seunarine | 32 | 0.5 | |||
| Independent | William Wallace | 19 | 0.3 | |||
Methil is an eastern coastal town in Scotland. It was first recorded as "Methkil" in 1207, and belonged to the Bishop of St Andrews. Two Bronze Age cemeteries have been discovered which date the settlement as over 8,000 years old. Famous for its High Street that used to have the most pubs per mile in Scotland, it was part of its own barony in 1614 and also part of the former burgh of Buckhaven and Methil. This burgh existed between 1891 and 1975. It is situated within a continuous urban area described as Levenmouth.
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Kirkcaldy was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Fife, returning one Member of Parliament (MP). It existed from the February 1974 election until its abolition in 2005.
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Levenmouth is a conurbation comprising a network of settlements on the north side of the Firth of Forth, in Fife on the east coast of Scotland. It consists of three principal coastal towns; Leven, Buckhaven, and Methil, and a number of villages and hamlets inland. The industrial towns of Buckhaven and Methil lie on the west bank of the River Leven, and the resort town of Leven is on the east bank. The "Bawbee Bridge" links the two sides of the river. Historically, Buckhaven and Methil were joined together as one burgh, while Leven was separate. The area had an estimated population of 37,238 in 2006.
Buckhaven is a town on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth between East Wemyss and Methil. Buckhaven is on the Fife Coastal Path, and near to Wemyss Caves and Largo Bay.
Buckhaven High School was a six-year co-educational non-denominational comprehensive school in Buckhaven, Fife, Scotland. In the past, Buckhaven was Levenmouth's high school for pupils who passed their qualifying exam. The school's motto was Perseverando.
Kirkcaldy was a local government district in the Fife region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996. The district was named after the town of Kirkcaldy but also covered a wider area, including the Fife regional capital of Glenrothes.
West Wemyss is a village lying on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland. According to the 2007 population estimate, the village has a population of 237. The village was granted burgh of barony status in 1525, bearing the name from the Wemyss family who lived in Wemyss Castle.
Buckhaven and Methil was a burgh of Scotland, centred on the towns of Buckhaven and Methil. It formed in 1891 and was abolished in 1975.
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Wemyss and District Tramways operated a tramway service between Leven and Kirkcaldy between 1906 and 1932.
The Wemyss Private Railway was a network of lines, sometimes known as the Wemyss Estate Railway. The lines were a group of mineral and other railways in Fife, Scotland, mainly on the land of the Wemyss family. They were built to connect coal pits to harbours and the railway network, for the use of tenants of the Estate. The Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway was built at the expense of the Wemyss Estate and carried passengers; it was later sold to the North British Railway.
The Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway was a railway company that built a line in the county of Fife in Scotland, connecting Buckhaven with the main line railway network at Thornton, and linking with collieries.
The Wemyss Estate Railway was a group of mineral and other railways in Fife, Scotland, mainly on the land of the Wemyss family. The lines were built to connect coal pits to harbours and the railway network, for the use of tenants of the Estate. The Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway was built at the expense of the Wemyss Estate and carried passengers; it was later sold to the North British Railway.
David Proudfoot was a Scottish trade unionist.
Wemyss is a civil parish on the south coast of Fife, Scotland, lying on the Firth of Forth. It is bounded on the north-east by the parish of Scoonie and the south-west by the parish of Kirkcaldy and Dysart and its length from south-west to north-east is about 6 miles. Inland it is bounded by Markinch and its greatest breadth is 2+1⁄4 miles.
Elections to Fife Council took place on 5 May 2022 on the same day as the 31 other Scottish local government elections. As with other Scottish council elections, it was held using single transferable vote (STV) – a form of proportional representation – in which multiple candidates are elected in each ward and voters rank candidates in order of preference.
