Location of the ward [1]
Glenrothes West and Kinglassie is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects three Councillors.
Glenrothes West and Kinglassie is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects three Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Peter Grant (SNP) | Alf Patey (SNP) | Raymond Duguid (Labour) | Betty Campbell (Labour) | ||||
| 2012 | Bill Brown (SNP/ Ind.) | Altany Craig (Labour) | ||||||
| 2015 | Craig Walker (SNP) | Julie Ford (SNP) | ||||||
| 2017 | 3 seats | |||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Julie Ford (incumbent) | 37.9% | 1,740 | |||||
| Labour | Altany Craik (incumbent) | 32.5% | 1,491 | |||||
| SNP | Craig Walker (incumbent) | 11.6% | 533 | 1,059.7 | 1,104.3 | 1,138.2 | 1,186.9 | |
| Conservative | David Croll | 11.6% | 531 | 537.5 | 613.6 | 639.7 | 745 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Keith Smith | 3.8% | 174 | 182.2 | 275.1 | 327.6 | ||
| Independent | Ian Robertson | 2.6% | 119 | 128.9 | 163.6 | |||
| Electorate: 12,068 Valid: 4,588 Spoilt: 103 Quota: 1,148 Turnout: 38.9% | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | Julie Ford (incumbent) | 30.2 | 1,442 | ||||||||
| Labour | Altany Craik (incumbent) | 26.2 | 1,252 | ||||||||
| Conservative | David Croll | 15.2 | 723 | 726.09 | 735.08 | 757.5 | 762.9 | 788.3 | 945.08 | ||
| SNP | Craig Walker (incumbent) | 13.8 | 659 | 873.9 | 879.5 | 887.7 | 918.9 | 933.8 | 1,061.6 | 1,182.2 | |
| Independent | Bill Brown (incumbent) | 9.6 | 460 | 465.3 | 477.9 | 491.6 | 514.9 | 548.4 | |||
| Scottish Green | Lewis Campbell | 1.8 | 87 | 93.5 | 96.2 | 99.8 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Derek Preston | 1.8 | 86 | 88.2 | 97.04 | 105.5 | 117.3 | ||||
| UKIP | Martin Green | 1.3 | 63 | 65.9 | 67.9 | ||||||
| Electorate: 11,840 Valid: 4,772 Spoilt: 70 Quota: 1,194 Turnout: 4,842 (40%) | |||||||||||
A by-election was called after Peter Grant resigned his seat, having been elected MP for Glenrothes [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| SNP | Julie Ford | 58.99% | 2,235 | |
| Labour | Alan Seath | 31.86% | 1,207 | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Gray | 6.18% | 234 | |
| Scottish Green | Lorna Ross | 2.98% | 113 | |
| Electorate: 13,910 Valid: 3,789 Quota: 1,895 Turnout: 27.1% | ||||
A by-election was called after Betty Campbell died. [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| SNP | Craig Walker | 55.3 | 2,539 | |
| Labour | Alan Seath | 35.8 | 1,643 | |
| Conservative | John Wheatley | 4.4 | 202 | |
| UKIP | Martin Green | 3.2 | 146 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Jane Ann Liston | 1.3 | 61 | |
| Valid: 4,591 Quota: Turnout: 32.59 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Betty Campbell (incumbent) †06 | 27.49 | 1,424 | ||||||||
| SNP | Peter Grant (incumbent) †09 | 18.17 | 941 | 948.9 | 958.2 | 959.2 | 966.5 | 975.5 | 1,018.8 | 1,263.2 | |
| SNP | Bill Brown †08 | 17.57 | 910 | 921.9 | 931.2 | 932.5 | 945.7 | 956 | 972.4 | 1,064.7 | |
| Labour | Altany Craig | 13.67 | 708 | 1,034.9 | 1,051.5 | ||||||
| SNP | Craig Walker | 6.74 | 349 | 350.4 | 351.4 | 351.6 | 353.9 | 356.9 | 368.9 | ||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | Claire Dawson | 5.23 | 271 | 283.2 | 291.8 | 294.5 | 310.1 | 371 | 478.1 | 488.6 | |
| Independent | Robert James Taylor | 3.71 | 192 | 196.3 | 202.3 | 203.2 | 290.5 | 318.8 | |||
| Conservative | Patricia Irvine | 2.99 | 155 | 156.9 | 169.2 | 169.5 | 170.8 | ||||
| Independent | Ian Robertson | 2.84 | 147 | 149.9 | 158.3 | 159.3 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Cathy Adamson | 1.60 | 83 | 85.2 | |||||||
| Electorate: 13,711 Valid: 5,180 Spoilt: 75 Quota: 1,037 Turnout: 5,255 (37.78%) | |||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Peter Grant | 1,835 | 28.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Betty Campbell | 1,627 | 25.2 | 2 | 1 | |
| SNP | Alf Patey | 1,278 | 19.8 | 3 | 2 | |
| Labour | Raymond Duguid | 585 | 9.1 | 4 | 6 | |
| Conservative | David Paterson Croll | 384 | 5.9 | |||
| Independent | Bob Taylor | 376 | 5.8 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | David Riches | 369 | 5.7 | |||
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