North East Fife
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About the North East Fife constituency
North East Fife is a county constituency in Scotland. The sitting MP is Wendy Chamberlain (Liberal Democrat), MP since December 2019. At the 2024 general election, the Liberal Democrats won with 54.7% to 23.2% for the SNP, a majority of 13,479 votes on a 61.2% turnout. PollCheck's current projection, at the seven-poll average, has the Liberal Democrats on 38.5% and the SNP on 27.0%, a margin of 11.5 points.
Who lives in North East Fife? Constituency demographics
From Scotland's 2022 Census and 2016 EU referendum estimates. Constituency-level data on 2024 boundaries.
How did North East Fife vote in 2024 and how would it vote now?
2024 vote shares from the HoC Library. Current projection is at the 7-poll average.
2024 general election
Current projection
Map of North East Fife
Switch between GE2024 ward winners (modelled estimates, ~4pp average error) and a demographic view from Scotland's 2022 Census. Hover any area for detail. How the map is built ›
How North East Fife voted at the Scottish Parliament election (7 May 2026)
North East Fife sits almost entirely within the Holyrood constituency of Fife North East. Scotland uses the Additional Member System: voters cast one ballot for a constituency MSP and a second for a regional list. The figures below are the constituency vote.
| Holyrood constituency | Approx. share of North East Fife's area | Winner | Runner-up | Elected MSP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fife North East | 92% | Liberal Democrats 63.7% | SNP 23.5% | Willie Rennie |
| Mid Fife and Glenrothes | 6% | SNP 48.5% | Reform UK 18.8% | Jenny Gilruth |
Holyrood 2026 constituency results from official declarations. Overlap percentages are approximate shares of the Westminster seat's land area, not of its electorate. They come from an area overlay of the post-2024 Westminster boundary on simplified Holyrood second-review boundaries (in force from 7 May 2026), so they do not always sum to 100% and small overlaps may be artefacts of the simplified boundaries.
North East Fife within Fife
North East Fife sits entirely within Fife Council. Fife was not due to vote in 2026, so the figures below are the most recent ward results with vote counts available. About this layer ›
Council overlap
| Council | Share of seat |
|---|---|
| Fife | 100% |
Most recent council ward results
Latest council result per ward, from the most recent election with vote counts available. How this table is sourced ›
Scottish council wards elect several councillors each by STV, so for these wards the table shows first preferences, not seats: the party with the most first-preference votes and each other party's share. 2022 figures are from the official cast-vote records.
| Ward | GE2024 winner | Latest council first preferences | Shift since GE2024 | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupar | Lib Dem 64.0%vs SNP 21.1% | 2022 Lib Dem 52.4%SNP 25.8%, Conservative 11.4%, Green 4.9%, Labour 3.4%, Others 1.1%, Independent 1.0% | - | 44.0% |
| East Neuk and Landward | Lib Dem 62.1%vs SNP 22.2% | 2022 Lib Dem 44.8%SNP 25.1%, Conservative 13.2%, Independent 9.0%, Green 5.2%, Labour 2.6% | - | 51.2% |
| Howe of Fife and Tay Coast | Lib Dem 52.2%vs SNP 21.5% | 2022 Lib Dem 44.9%SNP 31.0%, Conservative 14.6%, Green 7.6%, Others 1.9% | - | 53.3% |
| Leven, Kennoway and Largo | Lib Dem 39.8%vs SNP 33.3% | 2022 SNP 42.5%Labour 24.7%, Lib Dem 19.3%, Conservative 10.4%, Green 2.4%, Others 0.8% | - | 43.0% |
| St Andrews | Lib Dem 60.1%vs SNP 20.4% | 2022 Lib Dem 48.1%SNP 22.2%, Conservative 14.7%, Labour 8.4%, Green 6.6% | - | 41.7% |
| Tay Bridgehead | Lib Dem 61.4%vs SNP 22.9% | 2022 Lib Dem 48.2%SNP 28.4%, Conservative 8.4%, Green 6.3%, Labour 4.3%, Independent 2.8%, Others 1.6% | - | 52.7% |
Projection trajectory
PollCheck's projection for North East Fife at each of the last 60 GB polls. Hover the chart for the underlying poll details.
Who has won North East Fife at past general elections?
2024 and notional 2019 rows are on current boundaries; 2010-2017 rows are on the boundaries in force at the time. More on boundaries ›
| Year | Result | MP | Lab | Con | LD | SNP | Majority | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | LD hold | Menzies Campbell | 17.1% | 21.8% | 44.3% | 14.2% | 9,048 | 63.8% |
| 2015 | SNP gain from LD | Stephen Gethins | 7.7% | 16.3% | 31.3% | 40.9% | 4,344 | 73.0%+9.2 |
| 2017 | SNP hold | Stephen Gethins | 9.6% | 24.1% | 32.9% | 32.9% | 2 | 71.3%-1.7 |
| 2019notional | Scottish National Party winner | - | 5.5% | 13.7% | 39.6% | 41.0% | 728 | 74.1%+2.8 |
| 2024 | LD gain from SNP | Wendy Chamberlain | 9.4% | 3.9% | 54.7% | 23.2% | 13,479 | 61.2%-12.9 |
Earlier years are on pre-2024 boundaries; comparable results on the new boundary will be added when sourced.
Constituencies most like North East Fife
Five seats with similar demographic profiles to North East Fife. Politics shown for context.
- ↓Leave36.3 / 35.9vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate49.6 / 51.8vs 33.7
- ↑Owner-occupied67.2 / 67.2vs 61.9
- ↓Leave36.3 / 39.6vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate49.6 / 46.5vs 33.7
- ↓No quals12.4 / 10.7vs 18.0
- ↑Graduate49.6 / 49.3vs 33.7
- ↓Leave36.3 / 39.7vs 53.2
- ↑Owner-occupied67.2 / 67.1vs 61.9
- ↑Graduate49.6 / 46.9vs 33.7
- ↓Leave36.3 / 40.7vs 53.2
- ↑Owner-occupied67.2 / 70.2vs 61.9
- ↓Leave36.3 / 41.4vs 53.2
- ↑Graduate49.6 / 44.5vs 33.7
- ↓Private rent15.0 / 13.4vs 20.2
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Sources
Every figure on this page is computed from the sources below. Read the full methodology ›
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- 2024 general election results · UK Parliament Election Results portal and House of Commons Library briefing CBP-10009.
- Notional 2019 results on 2024 boundaries · UK Parliament Election Results portal. Recalculated by Parliament; carries assumptions about how 2019 voters would have distributed across the redrawn boundaries.
- Historic general election results (2010-2017) · House of Commons Library historic results files (on the boundaries in force at the time).
- Ward-level GE2024 estimates · Britain Elects / New Statesman - article by Ben Walker, underlying spreadsheet. Modelled from constituency totals; average ~4pp per-ward MoE.
- May 2026 council ward results · Democracy Club via PollCheck's locals 2026 dataset.
- Earlier council ward results (2014-2024) · DCLEAPIL v1.0 (Jason Leman, drawing on Andrew Teale's LEAP dataset and Democracy Club).
- Demographics · ONS Census 2021 (England and Wales), aggregated to constituency level using the ONS LSOA21 -> PCON24 best-fit lookup.
- EU referendum 2016 estimates · Constituency-level Leave vote estimates (Hanretty 2017 method).
- MP details and Cabinet roles · UK Parliament Members API. MP photos are fetched live from the same source.
- Boundary geometry and lookups · ONS Open Geography Portal (PCON24 boundaries, LSOA21 boundaries, LSOA21-WD24-LAD24 best-fit lookup).
- Current projection and trajectory · PollCheck's demographic model at the rolling 7-poll average from aggregated GB polls, built from the British Election Study Internet Panel (Fieldhouse et al.), Census 2021 (ONS) and Scotland's Census 2022 (NRS). The trajectory was recalculated with the current model, introduced in autumn 2026.
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