Location of the ward [1]
Leven, Kennoway and Largo is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects four Councillors.
Leven, Kennoway and Largo is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife council. It elects four Councillors.
| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | David Alexander (SNP) | Alistair Hunter (SNP) | Charles Haffey (Labour) | Marilyn Whitehead (Liberal Democrats) | ||||
| 2012 | Tom Adams (Labour) | |||||||
| 2016 | Alistair Suttie (SNP) | |||||||
| 2017 | Colin Davidson (Labour) | Graham Richie (Conservative) | ||||||
| 2022 | Eugene Clarke (Liberal Democrats) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| SNP | David Alexander (incumbent) | 31.7% | 2,077 | |||
| Labour | Colin Davidson (incumbent) | 20.6% | 1,348 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Eugene Clarke | 19.3% | 1,268 | 1,307.8 | 1,312.5 | |
| SNP | Alistair Suttie (incumbent) | 10.8% | 707 | 1,323.2 | ||
| Conservative | Graham Ritchie (incumbent) | 10.4% | 683 | 686.7 | 688.5 | |
| Labour | Jacob Winton | 4.1% | 271 | 287.2 | 310.9 | |
| Scottish Green | Iain Morrice | 2.4% | 156 | 199.5 | 200.3 | |
| Scottish Family | Davina Saunders | 0.7% | 49 | 52.7 | 53 | |
| Electorate: 15,245 Valid: 6,559 Spoilt: 128 Quota: 1,312 Turnout: 43.9% | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | David Alexander (incumbent) | 23.6 | 1,506 | ||||||||
| Conservative | Graham Ritchie | 21.02 | 1,339 | ||||||||
| SNP | Alistair Suttie (incumbent) | 15.7 | 1,002 | 1,194.9 | 1,196.2 | 1,204.9 | 1,256.9 | 1,348.9 | |||
| Labour | Colin Davidson | 13.9 | 885 | 892.9 | 900.7 | 902.6 | 913.5 | 1,109.7 | 1,124.09 | 1,972.9 | |
| Labour | Tom Adams (incumbent) | 13.7 | 872 | 879.09 | 883.7 | 886.9 | 901.2 | 988.6 | 1,001.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Steve Wood | 9.8 | 625 | 628.2 | 652.9 | 656.3 | 687.6 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Iain Morrice | 1.8 | 115 | 122.09 | 124.3 | 127.6 | |||||
| Solidarity | Craig Duncan | 0.39 | 25 | 27.5 | 28.3 | ||||||
| Electorate: 14,841 Valid: 6,369 Spoilt: 122 Quota: 1,274 Turnout: 6,491 (43.7%) | |||||||||||
A by election was called after Alistair Hunter resigned his seat ahead of his emigration to Australia. [3]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SNP | Alistair Suttie | 36.95% | 1,501 | 1,532 | 1,615 | 1,668 | 2,214 | |
| Labour | Colin Davidson | 28.43% | 1,155 | 1,169 | 1,302 | 1,620 | ||
| Conservative | Graham Ritchie | 18.51% | 752 | 754 | 954 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Steve Wood | 14.28% | 580 | 590 | ||||
| Scottish Green | Iain Morrice | 1.82% | 74 | |||||
| Valid: 4,062 Spoilt: 28 Quota: 2,032 Turnout: 4,090 (27.6%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| SNP | David Alexander (incumbent) | 23.40 | 1,383 | ||||||||
| Labour | Charles Haffey (incumbent) | 19.08 | 1,128 | 1,136.5 | 1,150.5 | 1,170.7 | 1,254.1 | ||||
| Labour | Tom Adams | 16.21 | 958 | 963.6 | 967.2 | 990.4 | 1,056.1 | 1,115.3 | 1,123.3 | 1,287.7 | |
| SNP | Alistair Hunter (incumbent) †13 | 12.59 | 744 | 856.9 | 1,149.1 | 1,177.3 | 1,239.7 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Christopher Trotter | 9.96 | 589 | 592.3 | 602.5 | 747 | 843.6 | 846.1 | 851.8 | ||
| Scottish Senior Citizens | Joe Cochrane | 6.92 | 409 | 417.9 | 427.1 | 503.8 | |||||
| Conservative | Dave Mole | 6.80 | 402 | 404.3 | 407.3 | ||||||
| SNP | Alistair Suttie | 5.04 | 298 | 347.7 | |||||||
| Electorate: 14,903 Valid: 5,911 Spoilt: 36 Quota: 1,183 Turnout: 6,006 (40.30%) | |||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | David Alexander | 2,164 | 29.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Charles Haffey | 1,676 | 22.9 | 2 | 1 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Marilyn Whitehead | 1,118 | 15.3 | 4 | 5 | |
| SNP | Alistair Hunter | 880 | 12.0 | 3 | 5 | |
| Conservative | Bill Brooks | 799 | 10.9 | |||
| Labour | Vincent Heneghan | 578 | 7.9 | |||
| UKIP | Rab Hutchison | 89 | 1.4 | |||
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