Fife North East is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of Fife. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the first past the post method of election. Under the additional-member electoral system used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, it is also one of nine constituencies in the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 28. Prior to the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025, the constituency was known as North East Fife; the name was changed to avoid confusion with the North East Fife constituency of the UK Parliament.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 108.
The seat has been held since the 2016 Scottish Parliament election by Willie Rennie, the former leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Mid Scotland and Fife region are: Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Kirkcaldy, Mid Fife and Glenrothes, Perthshire North, Perthshire South and Kinross-shire and Stirling. The region covers all of the Clackmannanshire council area, all of the Fife council area, all of the Perth and Kinross council area and all of the Stirling council area.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 143.
Constituency boundaries and council area
The seat is one of five representing Fife in the Scottish Parliament with the other four being Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, and Mid Fife and Glenrothes.Second Review of Scottish Parliament Boundaries: Report to Scottish Ministers, p 140-142.
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, for the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, using the name and boundaries of the pre-existing North East Fife constituency of the House of Commons constituency. Since the 2005 United Kingdom general election, UK and Scottish parliamentary constituencies have diverged, and there is no longer any link between the two sets of boundaries, although they continued to share a name.See The 5th Periodical Report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland The boundaries of the Scottish Parliament seat were themselves reviewed ahead of the 2011 Scottish Parliament election as part of the first periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries. The following electoral wards of Fife Council were used to define the North East Fife constituency at this review:
Cupar East Neuk and Landward Howe of Fife and Tay Coast St Andrews Tay Bridgehead
At the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025 the seat boundaries were unchanged, however from the 2026 Scottish Parliament election onwards the constituency has been renamed to Fife North East to avoid confusion with the North East Fife constituency of the UK Parliament.
Member of the Scottish Parliament Election Member Party 1999 Iain Smith Liberal Democrats 2011 Roderick Campbell SNP 2016 Willie RennieLiberal Democrats
Election results
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1990s
See also North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)
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