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Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is a county constituency representing the areas around the towns of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, in Fife, Scotland, in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was created for the 2005 general election from most of the old Kirkcaldy constituency and parts of Dunfermline East constituency, and is currently represented in parliament by Lesley Laird of the Labour Party.

Boundaries

The Fife Council wards of Aberdour and Burntisland West; Auchtertool and Burntisland East; Ballingry and Lochore; Bennochy and Valley; Cowdenbeath Central; Crosshill and Lochgelly North; Dalgety Bay East; Dalgety Bay West and Hillend; Dunnikier; Dysart and Gallatown; Glebe Park, Pathhead and Sinclairtown; Hayfield and Balsusney; Kelty; Kinghorn and Invertiel; Linktown and Kirkcaldy Central; Lumphinnans and Lochgelly South; Oakfield and Cowdenbeath North; Raith and Longbraes; Smeaton and Overton; Templehall East; and Templehall West.

The constituency is bounded by Ochil and South Perthshire to the north, Dunfermline and West Fife to the west and Glenrothes to the east.

Along with Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, the towns of Burntisland, Dalgety Bay, Dysart, Kelty, and Lochgelly and the villages of Aberdour, Auchtertool, Ballingry, Crosshill, Glencraig, Kinghorn, Lochore and Lumphinnans make up the constituency.^[1]

Members of Parliament

The first Member of Parliament after the seat's creation in 2005, was the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, Gordon Brown; who had previously represented Dunfermline East from 1983 to 2005, and would later succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister in 2007. At the general election of 2010, Brown was re-elected as an MP, but was defeated as Prime Minister, and soon resigned as Leader of the Labour Party. He announced that he would continue to serve as an Opposition backbencher,^[2] and did not retire from the Commons until the 2015 election, which he did not contest. On that occasion, the SNP won parliamentary representation in the area for the first time, in line with the party's landslide victory throughout Scotland at that election.

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election 2010: Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath^[7]^[8]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Gordon Brown
|votes = 29,559
|percentage = 64.5
|change = +6.4
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Douglas Chapman
|votes = 6,550
|percentage = 14.3
|change = -0.2
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate = John Mainland
|votes = 4,269
|percentage = 9.3
|change = -3.7
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Lindsay Paterson
|votes = 4,258
|percentage = 9.3
|change = -1.0
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = UK Independence Party
|candidate = Peter Adams
|votes = 760
|percentage = 1.7
|change = +0.5
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Susan Archibald
|votes = 184
|percentage = 0.4
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Donald MacLaren
|votes = 165
|percentage = 0.4
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate minor party
|party = Land Party
|candidate = Derek Jackson
|votes = 57
|percentage = 0.1
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box majority
|votes = 23,009
|percentage = 50.2
|change = +6.4
}}{{Election box turnout
|votes = 45,802
|percentage = 62.2
|change = +3.8
}}{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
|swing = +3.3
}}{{Election box end}}

Elections in the 2000s

{{Election box begin |
|title=General Election 2005: Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath^[9]
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Gordon Brown
|votes = 24,278
|percentage = 58.1
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Alan Bath
|votes = 6,062
|percentage = 14.5
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Liberal Democrats (UK)
|candidate = Alex Cole-Hamilton
|votes = 5,450
|percentage = 13.0
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Stuart Randall
|votes = 4,308
|percentage = 10.3
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Socialist Party
|candidate = Steve West
|votes = 666
|percentage = 1.6
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = UK Independence Party
|candidate = Peter Adams
|votes = 516
|percentage = 1.2
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Scottish Senior Citizens Unity Party
|candidate = James Parker
|votes = 425
|percentage = 1.0
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Elizabeth Kwantes
|votes = 47
|percentage = 0.1
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Independent (politician)
|candidate = Pat Sargent
|votes = 44
|percentage = 0.1
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box majority
|votes = 18,216
|percentage = 43.6
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box turnout
|votes = 41,796
|percentage = 58.4
|change = N/A
}}{{Election box new seat win
|winner = Labour Party (UK)
}}{{Election box end}}

Notes

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.gordonbrownmp.co.uk/constituency.html |title=Gordon Brown Constituency Website |accessdate=26 June 2007 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520005851/http://www.gordonbrownmp.co.uk/constituency.html |archivedate=20 May 2010 |df=dmy-all }}
2. ^"Brown to remain as backbench MP", BBC News, 13 May 2010
3. ^{{Rayment-hc|k|2|date=March 2012}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Election Data 2015|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|accessdate=17 October 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017112223/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt|archivedate=17 October 2015}}
5. ^25Aug15
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://yournextmp.com/constituency/14437/|title=Candidates to be MP (PPCs) for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath in the UK 2015 General Election|work=YourNextMP}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Election Data 2010|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2010.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|accessdate=17 October 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726162034/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2010.txt|archivedate=26 July 2013 }}
8. ^http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/topics/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.display&p2sid=10CC3530-AA3B-9CCD-63F538B9ABCE0DB5&themeid=2B892409-722D-4F61-B1CC-7DE81CC06A90
9. ^{{cite web|title=Election Data 2005|url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2005ob.txt|publisher=Electoral Calculus|accessdate=18 October 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015054249/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2005ob.txt|archivedate=15 October 2011}}

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Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

Elections in the 2000s

See also

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