North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)




North East Fife is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament covering part of the council area of Fife. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament 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. As a result of the second periodic review of Scottish Parliament boundaries in 2025, the constituency will be renamed Fife North East to avoid confusion with the North East Fife constituency of the UK Parliament.
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.

Constituency boundaries and council area

The seat is one of five representing Fife the Scottish Parliament with the other four being Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, and Mid Fife and Glenrothes.
The constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of a pre-existing UK House of Commons constituency. Since the 2005, however, UK and Scottish parliamentary constituencies have diverged, and there is no longer any link between the two sets of boundaries.
The boundaries of the seat were 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 reshaped North East Fife constituency:
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 will be renamed Fife North East to avoid confusion with the North East Fife constituency of the UK Parliament.