West Fife (UK Parliament constituency)

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West Fife was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1974. Along with East Fife, it was formed by dividing the old Fife constituency.

Willie Gallacher of the Communist Party of Great Britain is notable as the longest-serving Member of Parliament (from 1935 to 1950) and the last MP in Parliament (until 1950) for the party.

Boundaries

1885–1918:

1918–1950:

1950–1974: The Burghs of Culross, Leslie, and Markinch; the Districts of Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, and Lochgelly; and part of the District of Wemyss.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member^[1]	Party
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1885	Robert Preston Bruce	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1889	Augustine Birrell	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1900	John Deans Hope	Liberal
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1910	William Adamson	Labour
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1931	Charles Milne	Unionist
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1935	Willie Gallacher	Communist
style="color:inherit;background-color: Template:Party color" \|	1950	Willie Hamilton	Labour
Feb 1974		constituency abolished

Elections

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Fife West election results

Elections in the 1880s

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General election 1885: West Fife ^[2]^[3]
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General election 1886: West Fife ^[4]^[5]
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Bruce's resignation caused a by-election.

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Birrell

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By-election, 5 Jul 1889: West Fife^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Rosslyn Wemyss	2,758	43.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			793	12.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			6,309	71.6	Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1890s

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General election 1892: West Fife ^[7]^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Robert Yellowlees	1,633	23.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			3,582	52.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			6,848	69.9	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1895: West Fife ^[9]^[10]^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Randolph Wemyss	2,965	38.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,754	22.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			7,684	72.2	Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1900s

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Hope

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General election 1900: West Fife ^[12]^[13]^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Gavin William Ralston	2,374	35.3	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,978	29.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			6,726	60.0	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1906: West Fife ^[15]^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Nelson B Constable	1,776	21.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			4,916	58.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			8,468	55.4	Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1910s

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General election January 1910: West Fife ^[17]^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Adamson	4,736	37.7	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Gavin William Ralston	1,994	15.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,423	10.1	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			12,889	73.1	Script error: No such module "String".
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William Adamson

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General election December 1910: West Fife ^[19]^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John Deans Hope	5,425	47.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			703	6.0	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			11,553	61.4	Script error: No such module "String".
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General Election 1914–15:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1915. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;

Labour: William Adamson
Unionist: Joseph Hume Menzies ^[21]

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Elections in the 1920s

General election 1918: West Fife
Party		Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Majority		6,644	45.2	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout		14,684	48.2	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1922: West Fife
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General election 1923: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan Mineworkers' Reform Union	Philip Hodge	6,459	34.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			5,745	30.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			18,663	57.4	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1924: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	J MacRobert	6,015	29.1	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			8,670	41.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			20,700	63.0	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1929: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willie Gallacher	6,040	20.5	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	A.B. Brown	5,727	19.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			11,628	39.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			29,435	69.7	Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1930s

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General election 1931: West Fife^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Adamson	11,063	35.8	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willie Gallacher	6,829	22.1	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			1,914	6.3	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			30,889	71.4	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1935: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Adamson	12,869	35.7	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Charles Milne	9,667	26.9	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			593	1.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			35,998	77.8	Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1940s

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General election 1945: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willie Hamilton	15,580	37.3	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Robert Scott Stevenson	8,597	20.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			2,056	4.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			41,813	75.4	Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1950s

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General election 1950: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Patrick William Neill Fraser	10,131	23.6	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Willie Gallacher	9,301	21.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			13,445	31.2	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			43,008	84.9	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1951: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John Patterson Fyfe	11,038	24.6	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Lauchlan	4,728	10.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			18,157	40.3	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			44,961	85.6	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1955: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Norman Wylie	10,638	24.8	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Lauchlan	5,389	12.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			16,211	37.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			42,876	80.3	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1959: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Alick Buchanan-Smith	11,257	24.7	Script error: No such module "String".
	Fife Socialist League	Lawrence Daly	4,886	10.7	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Lauchlan	3,828	8.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			14,297	31.4	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			45,525	81.3	Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1960s

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General election 1964: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John B. M. Gall	11,880	27.0	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	William Lauchlan	3,273	7.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			16,926	38.5	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			43,959	78.6	Script error: No such module "String".
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General election 1966: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	John B. M. Gall	8,300	19.3	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Robert R. Patrick	6,046	14.1	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Archibald D. MacMillan	1,542	3.6	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			18,823	43.8	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			43,011	76.8	Script error: No such module "String".
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Elections in the 1970s

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General election 1970: West Fife
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />±%Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Gary McLaughlan	12,837	26.2	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Jimmy Halliday	5,386	11.0	Script error: No such module "String".
	Script error: No such module "Political party".	Archibald D. MacMillan	855	1.7	Script error: No such module "String".
Majority			17,092	34.9	Script error: No such module "String".
Turnout			49,007	74.2	Script error: No such module "String".
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References

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↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ The Liberal Year Book, 1907
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
↑ British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig
↑ Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916
↑ Daily Record 22 May 1914
↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1934

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Sources

Election results, 1950 - 1974 Template:Webarchive
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 - 1949
F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1885 - 1918

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[1] Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

[2] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[3] The Liberal Year Book, 1907

[4] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[5] The Liberal Year Book, 1907

[6] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[7] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[8] The Liberal Year Book, 1907

[9] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[10] The Liberal Year Book, 1907

[11] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901

[12] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[13] The Liberal Year Book, 1907

[14] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1901

[15] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[16] The Liberal Year Book, 1907

[17] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[18] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

[19] British Parliamentary Election Results 1885-1918, FWS Craig

[20] Debrett's House of Commons & Judicial Bench, 1916

[21] Daily Record 22 May 1914

[22] Whitaker's Almanack, 1934

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West Fife (UK Parliament constituency)

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Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

Elections in the 1970s

References

Sources

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Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

Elections in the 1920s

Elections in the 1930s

Elections in the 1940s

Elections in the 1950s

Elections in the 1960s

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