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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.
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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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