West Fife and Coastal Villages (ward)

Location of the ward ^[1]

West Fife and Coastal Villages is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife area council in the southeast of Scotland. It elects three Councillors.

Councillors[edit]

Election	Councillors
2007		Bill Walker (SNP)		Bobby McClelland (Labour)		William Ferguson (Ind.)	Gerry McMullan (Liberal Democrats)
2012	Kate Stewart (SNP/ Ind.)		Alice Callaghan (Labour)			William Ferguson (Ind.)
2017			Mino Manekshaw (Conservative)		3 seats
2020			Mino Manekshaw (Conservative)
2022		Sam Steele (SNP)	Graeme Downie (Labour)	Conner Young (Conservative)

Election Results[edit]

2022 Election[edit]

2022 Fife Council election

West Fife and Coastal Villages - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Labour	Graeme Downie	24.9%	1,482	1,487	1,492
	SNP	Sam Steele	21.8%	1,301	1,307	1,330	1,330	1,336	1,417	1,448	1,509.1
	Conservative	Conner Young	17.1%	1,017	1,020	1,020	1,020	1,056	1,062	1,179	1,286.2	1,286.2	1,425.4
	SNP	Katie Strang	14%	837	843	860	860	865	933	961	1,012	1,027.9
	Labour	Jacqueline McKenna	7.7%	458	458	461	461.8	471.8	501.8	640.8
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Cockburn	6.7%	399	402	406	406.1	418	460.1
	Scottish Green	Craig McCutcheon	4.1%	246	251	264	264	273
	Scottish Family	Danny Smith	1.6%	94	97	107	107
	Alba	William Gavin	1.4%	83	92
	Independent	Martin Keatings	0.8%	46
Electorate: 13,553 Valid: 5,963 Spoilt: 129 Quota: 1,491 Turnout: 44.9%

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2017 Election[edit]

2017 Fife Council election

West Fife and Coastal Villages - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Bobby Clelland (incumbent)	27.08%	1,682
	Conservative	Mino Manekshaw	19.1%	1,186	1,190.4	1,197.4	1,253.5	1,382.4	1,542.6	1,575.5
	SNP	Kate Stewart (incumbent)†††††	17.45%	1,084	1,091.1	1,138.1	1,173.3	1,203.4	1,271.7	2,250
	SNP	Willie Gavin	15.94%	990	994.2	1,018.4	1,031.6	1,067.6	1,139
	Labour	Suzanne Davies	8.66%	538	635.1	654.5	691.5	816.2
	Liberal Democrats	Aude Boubaker-Calder	5.8%	360	363.5	382.5	438
	Independent	Martin Keatings	3.54%	220	222.6	245.9
	Scottish Green	Jeroen Van Leeuwen	2.43%	151	152.3
Electorate: 13,030 Valid: 6,211 Spoilt: 137 Quota: 1,553 Turnout: 6,348 (48.7%)

2012 Election[edit]

2012 Fife Council election

West Fife and Coastal Villages - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Bobby Clelland (incumbent)	30.65	1,933
	SNP	Kate Stewart	15.73	992	1,020.8	1,035.8	1,055.3	1,077.8	1,597.3
	Labour	Alice Callaghan	14.11	890	1,420.1
	Independent	William Ferguson (incumbent)	11.46	723	749.4	771.6	810.1	956.8	975.2	1,053.8	1,394.8
	Liberal Democrats	Gerry McMullan (incumbent)	9.59	605	618.5	631.1	646.2	859.5	871.6	916
	SNP	Len Woods	8.77	553	565.8	569.7	576.2	590.1
	Conservative	Bruce Holborn	8.01	505	511.9	516.6	531.1
	Scottish Senior Citizens	Charlie Ross	1.68	106	114.7	128.2
Electorate: 14,331 Valid: 6,307 Spoilt: 81 Quota: 863 Turnout: 6,385 (44.01%)

2007 Election[edit]

2007 Fife Council election

West Fife and Coastal Villages
	Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
Labour	Bobby Clelland	1,826	23.0	1	1
Liberal Democrats	Gerry McMullan	1,722	21.6	2	1
SNP	Bill Walker	1,663	20.9	3	1
Independent	William Ferguson	1,244	15.6	4	6
Labour	Helen Law	896	11.3
Conservative	Dennis Halligan	605	7.6

References[edit]

^ "Scottish Boundary Commission | The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland".
^ "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.

[1] "Scottish Boundary Commission | The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland".

[2] "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.

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