1995 Fife Council election

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6 May 1995 (1995-05-06)

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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 Fife Council were held on the 6 April 1995 and were the first for the newly formed Unitary authority for Fife Council, which was created under the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994

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Election results

Fife Local Election Result 1995
	Seats	Gains	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

External links

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