Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy is one of 22 wards used to elect members of Fife Council. The ward elects three Councillors, covering the towns of Burntisland and Kinghorn, the village of Auchtertool, as well as the western outskirts of Kirkcaldy.
| Election | Councillors | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | George Kay (SNP) | Ron Edwards (Labour) | Susan Leslie (Liberal Democrats) | |||
| 2012 | Peter George (Labour) | |||||
| 2017 | Lesley Backhouse (SNP) | Gordon Langlands (Labour) | Kathleen Leslie (Conservative) | |||
| 2022 | Julie MacDougall (Labour) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| SNP | Lesley Backhouse (incumbent) | 29.5% | 1,735 | |||||||||
| Labour | Julie MacDougall | 29.4% | 1,730 | |||||||||
| Conservative | Kathleen Leslie (incumbent) | 21% | 1,239 | 1,245.5 | 1,296.3 | 1,297.4 | 1,319.2 | 1,326.6 | 1,416.9 | 1,442.6 | 1,669.8 | |
| SNP | Olaf Stando | 8.4% | 493 | 677.7 | 693.4 | 699.3 | 700.4 | 742.9 | 771.7 | 1,018.2 | ||
| Scottish Green | Claire Luxford | 5.7% | 336 | 370.9 | 398.5 | 409.4 | 412.2 | 427.4 | 497.5 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Anne O'Brien | 3.5% | 209 | 215 | 293.6 | 295.4 | 301.1 | 309 | ||||
| Alba | Colin Fraser | 1.3% | 76 | 82.3 | 85.6 | 97 | 102.9 | |||||
| Scottish Family | Garry Downie | 0.7% | 40 | 40.8 | 45.7 | 49.7 | ||||||
| ISP | Andrew Bentley-Steed | 0.6% | 33 | 40.4 | 42.5 | |||||||
| Electorate: 11,716 Valid: 5,891 Spoilt: 69 Quota: 1,473 Turnout: 50.9% | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Conservative | Kathleen Leslie | 25.1 | 1,479 | ||||||||||
| SNP | Lesley Backhouse | 19.4 | 1,144 | 1,144.09 | 1,145.09 | 1,177.09 | 1,192.09 | 1,283.1 | 1,710.1 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Leslie (incumbent) | 13.6 | 769 | 770.8 | 771.8 | 799.08 | 819.9 | 891.9 | 909.9 | 943.9 | 1,121.1 | ||
| Labour | Gordon Langlands | 12.9 | 761 | 761.8 | 762.8 | 818.8 | 988.9 | 1,035.01 | 1,051.02 | 1,088.7 | 1,229.7 | 1,660.1 | |
| Independent | Roy Mackie | 8.07 | 475 | 475.6 | 479.6 | 540.9 | 557.9 | 610.04 | 620.04 | 673.9 | |||
| SNP | Stuart MacPhail * | 7.3 | 429 | 429.03 | 437.03 | 440.03 | 446.04 | 491.04 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Scott Rutherford | 5.3 | 314 | 314.1 | 326.1 | 331.1 | 342.2 | ||||||
| Labour | Fiona Sword | 4.1 | 242 | 242.3 | 243.3 | 257.3 | |||||||
| Independent | Peter George (incumbent) | 4.06 | 239 | 239.6 | 241.6 | ||||||||
| Solidarity | Bill Mair | 0.6 | 36 | 36 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 11,582 Valid: 5,888 Spoilt: 79 Quota: 1,473 Turnout: 5,967 (51.5%) | |||||||||||||
* = Sitting Councillor for Kirkcaldy Central.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Labour | Peter George | 27.85 | 1,331 | |||||||||
| SNP | George Kay (incumbent) | 25.44 | 1,216 | |||||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Leslie (incumbent) | 15.46 | 739 | 746.6 | 748.7 | 758.7 | 782.1 | 830.8 | 954.2 | 1,043.4 | 1,207.5 | |
| Labour | Richard Perry | 9.83 | 470 | 573.4 | 574.4 | 583.9 | 607.1 | 636.6 | 657.7 | 749.7 | ||
| SNP | Sally Walsh | 7.89 | 377 | 380.9 | 395.2 | 406.5 | 421.6 | 446.9 | 464.1 | |||
| Conservative | Norman Morrison | 5.31 | 254 | 255.3 | 255.6 | 261.7 | 274.9 | 334.4 | ||||
| UKIP | Peter Adams | 4.46 | 213 | 215.3 | 215.7 | 220.7 | 246.9 | |||||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | Anne Whyte | 2.36 | 113 | 116.5 | 116.9 | 132.1 | ||||||
| Monster Raving Loony | Louche Lord Lancaster | 1.40 | 67 | 68.5 | 68.9 | |||||||
| Electorate: 11,474 Valid: 4,780 Spoilt: 40 Quota: 1,196 Turnout: 4,820 (41.66%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | George Kay | 2,204 | 37.8 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Ron Edwards | 1,344 | 23.0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Susan Leslie | 910 | 15.6 | 3 | 5 | |
| Labour | Collett Salvona | 649 | 11.1 | |||
| Conservative | Jamie Potton | 567 | 9.7 | |||
| UKIP | Peter Adams | 164 | 2.8 | |||
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