Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages (ward)
Location of the ward [1]
Buckhaven, Methil and Wemyss Villages is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of Fife Council. The ward elects four Councillors, covering the towns of Buckhaven and Methil, as well as the villages of East Wemyss, West Wemyss, and Coaltown of Wemyss.
Councillors
[edit]| Election | Councillors | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Arthur Robertson (SNP) |
Jim Young (Labour) |
Tom Adams (Labour) |
Andrew Roger (Ind.) | ||||
| 2012 | John O'Brien (SNP) |
David Graham (Labour) | ||||||
| 2017 | Ryan Smart (Labour) |
Ken Caldwell (SNP) | ||||||
| 2022 | Thomas Adams (Labour) | |||||||
Election Results
[edit]2022 Election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SNP | Ken Caldwell (incumbent) | 30% | 1,532 | ||||
| Labour | David Graham (incumbent) | 24.4% | 1,248 | ||||
| SNP | John O'Brien (incumbent) | 17.4% | 890 | 1,037.4 | |||
| Labour | Thomas Adams | 15.8% | 809 | 838.3 | 881.9 | 1,052.9 | |
| Conservative | Brian Mills | 6.5% | 330 | 333.3 | 336.6 | 343.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Celyn Ashworth | 2.3% | 117 | 119.3 | 127.3 | 130.4 | |
| Scottish Green | Jerome van Leeuwen | 2.2% | 113 | 124 | 193.6 | 196.7 | |
| Alba | Susan Blair | 1.3% | 66 | 75.7 | 99.9 | 102.3 | |
| Electorate: 13,540 Valid: 5,105 Spoilt: 136 Quota: 1,022 Turnout: 38.7% | |||||||
2017 Election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Labour | David Graham (incumbent) | 30.4 | 1,661 | |||||||||
| SNP | John O'Brien (incumbent) | 18.1 | 991 | 1,014.9 | 1,015.2 | 1,020.2 | 1,039.9 | 1,059.6 | 1,064.9 | 1,074.5 | 1,161.4 | |
| SNP | Ken Caldwell | 15.4 | 842 | 861.1 | 862.1 | 864.1 | 879.5 | 893.8 | 904.1 | 908.7 | 1,444.7 | |
| SNP | Leslie Bain | 11.6 | 635 | 646.6 | 648.9 | 653.3 | 664.3 | 673.6 | 682.9 | 686.7 | ||
| Conservative | Keith Barton | 9.3 | 507 | 520.3 | 522.9 | 535.4 | 539.7 | 567.04 | ||||
| Labour | Ryan Smart | 9.1 | 498 | 914.5 | 918.8 | 935.6 | 946.6 | 999.4 | 1,195.6 | |||
| Independent | Ronald Hunter | 2.5 | 137 | 148.3 | 184.9 | 195.9 | 214.9 | |||||
| Scottish Green | Stephen Ferguson | 1.4 | 78 | 83.5 | 93.1 | 100.5 | ||||||
| Liberal Democrats | Rory Roberson | 1.1 | 62 | 69.5 | 70.5 | |||||||
| Independent | Eunice Cameron | 1.04 | 57 | 61.8 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 13,802 Valid: 5,468 Spoilt: 170 Quota: 1,094 Turnout: 5,638 (40.8%) | ||||||||||||
2012 Election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Labour | David Graham | 28.2 | 1,430 | |||||||||
| Independent | Andrew Rodger (incumbent) | 25.79 | 1,307 | |||||||||
| SNP | John O'Brien | 16.38 | 830 | 859.7 | 902 | 902.9 | 907.1 | 915.2 | 915.6 | 967.3 | 1,394.5 | |
| Labour | Jim Young (incumbent) | 14.45 | 732 | 1,024.6 | ||||||||
| SNP | Arthur Robertson (incumbent) | 9.67 | 490 | 499.3 | 532.3 | 533 | 534 | 538.2 | 544 | 565.9 | ||
| Independent | Ricky Jannetta | 3.02 | 153 | 178 | 253.6 | 255 | 261.3 | 276.6 | 300.3 | |||
| Conservative | Keith Stanley Smith | 1.18 | 60 | 61.2 | 65.9 | 65.9 | 69.8 | 76.6 | ||||
| UKIP | Kris Seunarine | 0.87 | 44 | 46.3 | 54.2 | 54.4 | 57.2 | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | Lois Lothian | 0.41 | 21 | 23.3 | 26.9 | 27.2 | ||||||
| Electorate: 14,114 Valid: 5,067 Spoilt: 36 Quota: 1,014 Turnout: 5,160 (35.90%) | ||||||||||||
2007 Election
[edit]| Party | Candidate | FPv% | % | Seat | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Andrew Rodger | 2,114 | 33.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| Labour | Tom Adams | 1,456 | 23.2 | 2 | 1 | |
| SNP | Arthur Robertson | 712 | 11.3 | 3 | 11 | |
| SNP | Stuart Macphail | 647 | 10.3 | |||
| Labour | Jim Young | 460 | 7.3 | 4 | 11 | |
| Independent | John O'Brien | 225 | 3.6 | |||
| Independent | Anne Marie Flack | 195 | 3.1 | |||
| Independent | Ricky Jannetta | 164 | 2.6 | |||
| Liberal Democrats | Lois Lothian | 107 | 1.7 | |||
| Conservative | David Graham Stacey | 97 | 1.5 | |||
| Scottish Socialist | Jim McLean | 53 | 0.8 | |||
| UKIP | Kris Seunarine | 32 | 0.5 | |||
| Independent | William Wallace | 19 | 0.3 | |||
References
[edit]- ^ "Scottish Boundary Commission | The Boundary Commission for Scotland is responsible for reviews of UK Parliament constituencies in Scotland". Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
- ^ "Candidate Votes Per Stage Report" (PDF). Fife Council. 5 June 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2022.