North East Fife | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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Boundary of North East Fife in Scotland.
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Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Stephen Gethins (SNP) |
Created from | East Fife |
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European Parliament constituency | Scotland |
North East Fife is a county constituency in Fife, Scotland, represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom currently held by Stephen Gethins. A slightly smaller constituency, also called North East Fife, is used by the Scottish Parliament.
1983-2005: North East Fife District.
2005–present: The area of the Fife Council other than those parts in the Dunfermline and West Fife County Constituency, the Glenrothes County Constituency and the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath County Constituency.
North East Fife in the region of Fife in Scotland has the River Tay on its northern coast, and the Firth of Forth to the south. The famous golf and university town of St. Andrews is in this constituency. Other notable population centres include Cupar, Newport-on-Tay, Newburgh, Auchtermuchty and Anstruther.
North East Fife was the most marginal result in the United Kingdom at the 2017 general election, with incumbent SNP MP Stephen Gethins seeing his majority cut from 4,344 votes (9.6%) to just 2 votes (0.0%) ahead of the Liberal Democrats, the most marginal result in a constituency in the UK since the result in Winchester at the 1997 general election, although the Winchester result was subsequently declared void. The last two vote majority to stand was at Ilkeston in 1931.