West Fife and Coastal Villages (ward)

West Fife and Coastal Villages is one of the 22 wards used to elect members of the Fife area council in central east Scotland. It elects three Councillors.

Location of the ward ^[1]

Councillors

Election	Councillors
2007		Bill Walker (SNP)		Bobby McClelland (Labour)		William Ferguson (Ind.)		Gerry McMullan (Liberal Democrats)
2012	Kate Stewart (SNP/ Ind.)		Alice Callaghan (Labour)
2017			Mino Manekshaw (Conservative)		3 seats
2020
2022		Sam Steele (SNP)	Graeme Downie (Labour)	Conner Young (Conservative)
2024	Karen Beaton (Labour)

Election results

2024 by-election

West Fife and Coastal Villages by-election (28 November 2024) - 1 seat

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Karen Beaton	33.1	881	882	890	921	1,010	1,147	1,474
	SNP	Paul Steele	33.1	879	887	896	944	985	1,015
	Conservative	David Ross	16.0	426	434	444	449	516
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Buchanan-Quigley	8.5	227	232	246	279
	Scottish Green	Fiona McOwan	4.8	128	130	141
	Independent	George Morton	2.4	64	77
	Scottish Family	Danny Smith	1.9	53
Electorate: 13,577   Valid: 2,658   Spoilt: 26   Quota: 1,330   Turnout: 19.8%

Source:^[2][3]

2022 election

Main article: 2022 Fife Council election

West Fife and Coastal Villages - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Labour	Graeme Downie	24.9	1,482	1,487	1,492
	SNP	Sam Steele	21.8	1,301	1,307	1,330	1,330	1,336	1,417	1,448	1,509
	Conservative	Conner Young	17.1	1,017	1,020	1,020	1,020	1,056	1,062	1,179	1,286	1,286	1,425
	SNP	Katie Strang	14.0	837	843	860	860	865	933	961	1,012	1,027
	Labour	Jacqueline McKenna	7.7	458	458	461	461	471	501	640
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Cockburn	6.7	399	402	406	406	418	460
	Scottish Green	Craig McCutcheon	4.1	246	251	264	264	273
	Scottish Family	Danny Smith	1.6	94	97	107	107
	Alba	William Gavin	1.4	83	92
	Independent	Martin Keatings	0.8	46
Electorate: 13,553   Valid: 5,963   Spoilt: 129   Quota: 1,491   Turnout: 44.9%

Source:^[4][5]

2017 election

2017 Fife Council election

West Fife and Coastal Villages - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Bobby Clelland (incumbent)	27.08%	1,682
	Conservative	Mino Manekshaw	19.1%	1,186	1,190.4	1,197.4	1,253.5	1,382.4	1,542.6	1,575.5
	SNP	Kate Stewart (incumbent)†	17.45%	1,084	1,091.1	1,138.1	1,173.3	1,203.4	1,271.7	2,250
	SNP	Willie Gavin	15.94%	990	994.2	1,018.4	1,031.6	1,067.6	1,139
	Labour	Suzanne Davies	8.66%	538	635.1	654.5	691.5	816.2
	Liberal Democrats	Aude Boubaker-Calder	5.8%	360	363.5	382.5	438
	Independent	Martin Keatings	3.54%	220	222.6	245.9
	Scottish Green	Jeroen Van Leeuwen	2.43%	151	152.3
Electorate: 13,030   Valid: 6,211   Spoilt: 137   Quota: 1,553   Turnout: 6,348 (48.7%)

2012 election

2012 Fife Council election

West Fife and Coastal Villages - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Bobby Clelland (incumbent)	30.65	1,933
	SNP	Kate Stewart	15.73	992	1,020.8	1,035.8	1,055.3	1,077.8	1,597.3
	Labour	Alice Callaghan	14.11	890	1,420.1
	Independent	William Ferguson (incumbent)	11.46	723	749.4	771.6	810.1	956.8	975.2	1,053.8	1,394.8
	Liberal Democrats	Gerry McMullan (incumbent)	9.59	605	618.5	631.1	646.2	859.5	871.6	916
	SNP	Len Woods	8.77	553	565.8	569.7	576.2	590.1
	Conservative	Bruce Holborn	8.01	505	511.9	516.6	531.1
	Scottish Senior Citizens	Charlie Ross	1.68	106	114.7	128.2
Electorate: 14,331   Valid: 6,307   Spoilt: 81   Quota: 863   Turnout: 6,385 (44.01%)

2007 election

2007 Fife Council election

West Fife and Coastal Villages

Party		Candidate	FPv%	%	Seat	Count
	Labour	Bobby Clelland	1,826	23.0	1	1
	Liberal Democrats	Gerry McMullan	1,722	21.6	2	1
	SNP	Bill Walker	1,663	20.9	3	1
	Independent	William Ferguson	1,244	15.6	4	6
	Labour	Helen Law	896	11.3
	Conservative	Dennis Halligan	605	7.6