The Scottish Parliamentary Election was held on Thursday 7 May 2026 and saw voting take place across Fife’s five constituencies to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) to sit in Holyrood.

Fife’s five Scotland Parliamentary constituencies are:

• Cowdenbeath

• Dunfermline

• Mid Fife & Glenrothes

• Kirkcaldy

• North East Fife

The results for the five Fife constituencies are:

Cowdenbeath 

Electorate: 57,226

Turnout: 47.44%

Ballot Papers Rejected: 92

Total votes: 27,153

Winning Candidate: David Barratt  

• David John Barratt – Scottish National Party (SNP): 11,994 votes

• James Stuart Calder – Scottish Liberal Democrats: 1,547 votes

• Mark Davies – Reform UK: 4,708 votes

• Laurie Moffat – Alliance to Liberate Scotland and Sovereignty: 304 votes

• Fiona Sword – Scottish Labour Party: 6,307 votes

• Darren Watt – Scottish Conservative and Unionist: 2,201 votes

Dunfermline 

Electorate: 64,247

Turnout: [insert 53.4%

Ballot Papers Rejected: 181

Total votes: 34,307

Winning Candidate: Shirley-Anne Somerville 

• Lauren Buchanan-Quigley – Scottish Liberal Democrats: 3,849 votes

• Thomas Heald – Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party: 2,209 votes

• George Grant Gordon Otto Inglis – Reform UK: 5,093 votes

• Joseph Jude Long – Scottish Labour Party: 8,769 votes

• Shirley-Anne Somerville – Scottish National Party (SNP): 14,206 votes

Mid Fife and Glenrothes 

Electorate: 55,417

Turnout: 46.59%

Ballot Papers Rejected: 102

Total number of votes: 25,821

Winning Candidate: Jenny Gilruth 

• Jennifer Madeline Gilruth – Scottish National Party (SNP): 12,461 votes

• Sacha Benjamin Haworth-Picone – Reform UK: 4,827 votes

• Niahm Cait Heald – Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party: 1,414 votes

• Afifa Khanam – Scottish Labour Party: 3,970 votes

• Edward James Scotcher – Scottish Liberal Democrats: 102 votes

Kirkcaldy  

Electorate: 62,405

Turnout: 45.9

Ballot Papers Rejected: 142

Total votes: 28,390

Winning Candidate: David Torrance 

• Claire Josephine Baker – Scottish Labour Party: 7,483 votes

• Fraser John Ashmore Graham – Scottish Liberal Democrats: 1,607 votes

• Heather Susan Isabella Greig – Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party: 1,445 votes

• Julie MacDougall – Reform UK: 5,484 votes

• David Herd Torrance – Scottish National Party (SNP): 12,230 votes

Fife North East 

Electorate: 57,352

Turnout: 58.63%

Ballot Papers Rejected: 120

Total Votes cast: 33,625

Winning Candidate: Willie Rennie 

• John Beare – Scottish National Party (SNP): 7,876 votes

• William Campbell Docherty – Reform UK: 2,524 votes

• Elizabeth Ellis – Scottish Labour Party: 818 votes

• William Cowan Rennie – Scottish Liberal Democrats: 21,350 votes

• Edward James Nicholas Sheasby – Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party: 936 votes