Location of the ward [1]
Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects three Councillors. The boundary covers the settlements of Inverkeithing, Hillend and Dalgety Bay.
Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects three Councillors. The boundary covers the settlements of Inverkeithing, Hillend and Dalgety Bay.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Alice McGarry (SNP) | Bob Eadie (Labour) | Dave Dempsey (Conservative) | Dave Herbert (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
| 2012 | Lesley Laird (Labour) | Gavin Yates (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | David John Barratt (SNP) | |||||||
| 2018 | Dave Coleman (Conservative) | |||||||
| 2022 | Sarah Neal (SNP) | Patrick Browne (Labour) | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | David Barratt (incumbent) | 28.4 | 2,187 | ||||||||
| Labour | Patrick Browne | 18.5 | 1,426 | 1,467 | 1,471 | 1,612 | |||||
| Conservative | Dave Dempsey (incumbent) | 17.6 | 1,355 | 1,380 | 1,401 | 1,446 | 1,456 | 1,494 | 1,519 | 2,430 | |
| Conservative | Dave Coleman (incumbent) | 11.6 | 897 | 908 | 923 | 939 | 950 | 990 | 1,014 | ||
| SNP | Sarah Neal | 10.4 | 802 | 1,262 | 1,273 | 1,296 | 1,302 | 1,763 | |||
| Scottish Green | Ryan Blackadder | 8.2 | 634 | 709 | 728 | 791 | 807 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Callum Hawthorne | 4.0 | 309 | 316 | 329 | ||||||
| Scottish Family | Sarah Davis | 1.2 | 93 | 95 | |||||||
| Electorate: 14,541 Valid: 7,703 Spoilt: 110 Quota: 1,541 Turnout: 53.7% | |||||||||||
On 8 June 2018, Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay Labour Councillor, Shadow Scottish Secretary, and Deputy Leader of Scottish Labour, Lesley Laird resigned her seat as she won the MP seat for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. [4] A by-election was held on Thursday, 6 September 2018. The seat was won by Conservative candidate Dave Colman. [5]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Conservative | Dave Coleman | 37.3% | 2,309 | 2,312 | 2,316 | 2,330 | 2,455 | 2,615 | 2,839 | |
| SNP | Neale Hanvey | 28.1% | 1,741 | 1,741 | 1,744 | 1,840 | 1,950 | 2,076 | 2,327 | |
| Labour | Billy Pollock | 12.0% | 744 | 746 | 747 | 794 | 867 | 1,058 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Callum John Hawthorne | 9.1% | 566 | 568 | 573 | 631 | 738 | |||
| Independent | Peter Collins | 8.4% | 521 | 524 | 545 | 565 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Mags Hall | 4.2% | 257 | 257 | 258 | |||||
| Independent | Alastair Amundsen MacIntyre | 0.6% | 40 | 41 | ||||||
| Scottish Libertarian | Calum Paul | 0.2% | 13 | |||||||
| Electorate: 14,484 Valid: 6,191 Spoilt: 48 Quota: 3,096 Turnout: 6,239 (43.1%) | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Conservative | Dave Dempsey (incumbent) | 36.6 | 2,841 | ||||||
| Labour | Lesley Laird (incumbent)† | 16.8 | 1,305 | 1,620.09 | |||||
| SNP | Alice McGarry (incumbent) | 15.8 | 1,229 | 1,252.1 | 1,258.3 | 1,333.7 | 1,395.4 | 1,585.02 | |
| SNP | David John Barratt | 15 | 1,165 | 1,184.9 | 1,187.4 | 1,241.8 | 1,280.2 | 1,482.8 | |
| Independent | Helen Cannon-Todd | 7.3 | 564 | 872.3 | 884.3 | 942.8 | 1,262.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Callum Hawthorne | 5 | 388 | 649.6 | 672.9 | 745.9 | |||
| Scottish Green | David Hansen | 3.5 | 271 | 310.9 | 317.3 | ||||
| Electorate: 14,398 Valid: 7,763 Spoilt: 59 Quota: 1,553 Turnout: 7,822 (54.3%) | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SNP | Alice McGarry (incumbent) | 25.56 | 1,377 | ||||||
| Labour | Lesley Laird | 17.82 | 960 | 978.7 | 991.1 | 1,060.5 | 1,061.6 | 1,197.8 | |
| Labour | Gavin Yates | 16.28 | 877 | 888.7 | 899.2 | 1,025.2 | 1,026.3 | 1,241.3 | |
| Conservative | Dave Dempsey (incumbent) | 15.44 | 832 | 843.1 | 930.7 | 1,085.2 | |||
| SNP | Helen Todd | 12.29 | 662 | 891.5 | 918.6 | 1,000.8 | 1,001.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Dave Walker * | 9.23 | 497 | 506.3 | 522.6 | ||||
| UKIP | Mike Arthur | 3.38 | 182 | 185.5 | |||||
| Electorate: 13,311 Valid: 5,387 Spoilt: 54 Quota: 1,078 Turnout: 5,441 (40.47%) | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | Alice McGarry | 2,172 | 29.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Bob Eadie | 1,510 | 20.5 | 2 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Dave Herbert | 1,337 | 18.1 | 3 | 2 | |
| Conservative | Dave Dempsey | 1,291 | 17.5 | 4 | 4 | |
| Labour | Jim Philp | 512 | 6.9 | |||
| Scottish Green | Ian Sinclair | 349 | 4.7 | |||
| UKIP | Chris Ashton | 137 | 1.9 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | David Noble | 60 | 0.8 | |||
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