Electorate (1999): 49653

2001 General Election:

Lewis Moonie	Labour	54.1%
Shirley-Anne Somerville	SNP	22.2%
Scott Campbell	Con	10.7%
Andrew Weston	LibDem	10.1%
Douglass Kinnear	SSP	2.9%

Labour Majority: 31.8%; Turnout: 54.6%

Kirkcaldy's most famous son is Adam Smith, widely seen as having invented free-market economics (indeed, he is seen as having invented the science of economics itself). Despite this, the seat has been held by Labour since 1935. Kirkcaldy is the 165th safest seat of the 654 in the country.

The constituency currently stretches along the south coast of Fife from Burntisland to Buckhaven. It stretches as far north as Thornton. You can view a map of the constituency in PDF format from The Boundary Commission for Scotland's website.

However, this will be changing at the next general election, as a result of the boundary changes in Scotland. The new Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency will be made up of Dalgety Bay, Cowdenbeath, Kelty, Ballingry, Lochgelly, Aberdour, Burntisland, Auchtertool, Kinghorn, Invertiel, Kirkcaldy and everything else in between. You can view a map of the new constituency here (PDF format, from The Boundary Commission for Scotland's website).

Kirkcaldy's constituency MSP is Marilyn Livingstone (Labour), who gained 46.7% of the vote ahead of Colin Welsh's (SNP) 24.7%.

See what BBC News Online has to say about the constituency:
2001 - General Election
2003 - Scottish Parliament election

...and here's what Labour say they're doing for Kirkcaldy.

LangToun Online - A decent website about Kirkcaldy.
Wikipedia entry for Kirkcaldy