Kirkcaldy East (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

Kirkcaldy East is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects three Councillors.

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		George Leslie (SNP/ Ind.)		Lawrence Brown (Labour)		Kay Carrington (Labour)
2010
2012		Arthur Morrison (SNP)
2015	Marie Penman (SNP/ Ind.)
2016
2017		Rod Cavanagh (SNP)	Ian Cameron (Labour)		Richard Watt (Conservative)
2022				Nicola Patrick (SNP)

Election Results

2022 Election

2022 Fife Council election

Kirkcaldy East - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Ian Cameron (incumbent)	32.9%	1,313
	SNP	Rod Cavanagh (incumbent)	23.1%	924	944.1	950.1	955.1	1,011.3
	SNP	Nicola Patrick	17.2%	687	693.7	696.7	702.2	772.1	782.6	793.6	931.9
	Conservative	Richard Watt (incumbent)	11.7%	469	475.9	480.2	516.8	524.6	524.6
	Labour	George Macdonald	6.8%	273	510.2	512.7	539.3	578.4	579.1	774.9
	Scottish Green	David Hansen	4.3%	172	180.4	186.4	211.3
	Liberal Democrats	Wink Thompson	2.9%	116	123.2	133.9
	Sovereignty	Walter Neilson	1%	41	43.4
Electorate: 11,052  Valid: 3,995  Spoilt: 130  Quota: 999  Turnout: 37.3%

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2017 Election

2017 Fife Council election

Kirkcaldy East - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Ian Cameron	24.7	985	993	1,002
	SNP	Rod Cavanagh	22.5	897	898	903	903.08	946.08	968.3	1,035.3
	Conservative	Richard Watt	15.3	611	625	630	630.09	642.09	671.4	791.5	791.7	924.8
	SNP	Steve McMahon	13.3	533	537	551	551.03	584.03	596.1	682.1	714.9
	Independent	Marie Penman (incumbent)	10.5	421	438	483	483.2	532.2	591.6
	Labour	Mhairi Cameron	5	199	203	209	211.4	237.4
	Scottish Green	Sandy Forbes	4.1	164	176	189	189.04
	Independent	Matthew Ritchie	2.7	108	111
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Rottger	1.9	75
Electorate: 10,747  Valid: 3,993  Spoilt: 119  Quota: 999  Turnout: 4,112 (38.3%)

2015 By-election

A by-election was called after Arthur Morrison resigned due to poor attendance. ^[3]

Kirkcaldy East by-election (22 January 2015) - 1 seat ^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	SNP	Marie Penman	47.33	1,460	1,464	1,466	1,472	1,484	1,553
	Labour	Liz Easton	35.27	1,088	1,088	1,091	1,097	1,120	1,148
	Conservative	Edgar Cook	7.23	223	224	225	231	266	274
	Scottish Green	Claire Reid	4.08	126	129	132	138	150
	UKIP	Peter Adams	3.79	117	117	120	123
	Liberal Democrats	Callum Leslie	1.30	40	40	41
	Independent	Ronald Hunter	0.62	19	21
	Independent	Alastair MacIntyre	0.39	12
Electorate: 10,924  Valid: 3,085  Spoilt: 41  Quota: 1,543  Turnout: 3,126 (27.27%)

2012 Election

2012 Fife Council election

Kirkcaldy East

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Lawrence Brown (incumbent)	29.90	1,111
	Labour	Kay Carrington (incumbent) †14	20.05	745	900.9	926.1	963.3
	SNP	Arthur Morrison †05	19.97	742	746.7	763.1	790.2	795.2	838.6	1,409.6
	SNP	Frank Wallace	16.42	610	613.1	620.3	651.4	654.3	675.5
	Conservative	Edgar Cook	6.03	224	226.4	251.8	295.9	299.1
	Scottish Senior Citizens	Mike Parker	4.84	180	182.1	195.3
	Liberal Democrats	Callum Leslie	2.80	104	106.1
Electorate: 10,749  Valid: 3,716  Spoilt: 60  Quota: 930  Turnout: 3,776 (34.57%)

2007 Election

2007 Fife Council election

Kirkcaldy East

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	SNP	George Leslie††	1,680	35.4	1	1
	Labour	Lawrence Brown	1,221	25.7	2	1
	Labour	Kay Carrington	773	16.3	3	5
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Forrester	572	12.1
	Conservative	Brian Mills	361	7.6
	Scottish Socialist	Karen McGregor	138	2.9

References

1. "Scottish Boundary Commission | The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland". Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
2. "Fife Council Candidate Votes Per Stage Report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
3. "'Invisible' Kirkcaldy councillor resigns - Fife Today". Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
4. "Kirkcaldy East by-election, 2015". Scottish Elections. Archived from the original on 29 April 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2017.