1995 Fife Council election

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1995 Fife Council election

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All 90 seats to Fife Council
45 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party
Labour
Liberal Democrats SNP
Seats won 52 24 9
Popular vote 53,759 23,208 24,550
Percentage 46.5% 20.1% 21.2%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party
Independent
Communist (Scotland)
Seats won 2 1
Popular vote 3,590 1,271
Percentage 3.1% 1.1%

Results by ward.

Council Leader before election

John MacDougall

Labour

Council Leader after election

John MacDougall

Labour

1995 Elections to

Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994

Election results

Fife Local Election Result 1995
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
 
Labour
52 57.8 46.5 53,759
  Liberal Democrats 24 26.7 20.1 23,208
  SNP 9 10.0 21.2 24,550
 
Conservative
0 0 0.0 5.8 6,744
 
Independent
2 2.2 3.1 3,590
  Communist (Scotland) 1 1.1 1.1 1,271
 
Democratic Left
0 0 0.0 0.8 976
 
Independent Labour
0 0 0.0 0.7 846
  Independent Scottish Nationalist 0 0 0.0 0.5 573
  Christian Democrat 0 0 0.0 0.0 29

Turnout was 42.2%

Party performance

Labour
performed very well continuing control of its majority.

Changes since last election

Ward results

References

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