Candidates and Constituency Assessments

'In Scotland the poor have got poorer and the rich have got... well they've got New Labour.' Chris Smith, 17 th March 2001.

Kirkcaldy

7 th June 2001 Westminster Election

Turnout: 28,157 (54.61 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour Co-op	Dr Lewis Moonie	15,227	54.08 %	+ 0.52 %
	Scottish National Party	Shirley-Anne Somerville	6,264	22.25 %	- 0.68 %
	Conservative	Scott Campbell	3,013	10.70 %	- 2.96 %
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Weston	2,849	10.12 %	+ 1.45 %
	Scotish Socialist Party	Dougie Kinnear	804	2.86 %	(+ 2.86 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	8,963	31.83 %	+ 1.20 %

1 st May 1997 Westminster Election

Turnout: 34,973 (67.02 %)
Logo	Party	Candidate	Votes	%	% change
	Labour	Dr Lewis Moonie	18,730	53.56 %	+ 7.73 %
	Scottish National Party	Stewart Hosie	8,020	22.93 %	+ 0.42 %
	Conservative	Charlotte Black	4,779	13.66 %	- 8.33 %
	Liberal Democrat	John Mainland	3,031	8.67 %	- 0.98 %
	Referendum	Victor Baxter	413	1.18 %	(+ 1.18 %)
	Lab hold	Lab majority	10,710	30.63 %	+ 7.31 %

Notional 1992 result

	Labour	17,426	45.83 %
	Scottish National Party	8,561	22.51 %
	Conservative	8,361	21.99 %
	Liberal Democrat	3,671	9.65 %
Labour win	Lab majority	8,865	23.32 %