Election: Two Reform winners on Fife’s list of regional MSPs
Fife councillor Julie MacDougall has secured her place as an MSP at the Scottish Parliament after the regional list winners were announced.
There are seven representatives who cover the wider Mid Scotland and Fife zone, and they will join the constituency winners when Holyrood convenes next week.
Ms MacDougall was placed in the top two on ReformUK’s regional list, and both got in with Helen McDade joining her in the capital.
The Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy councillor – who quit as a Labour to sit as an independent before joining the right wing Reform – has said she will continue as a councillor given the next local authority elections are just 12 months away.
The list also saw Claire Baker returned to Holyrood for Labour along with Joe Long, while Murdo Fraser and Stephen Kerr succeeded for the Conservatives.
The long-serving Scottish Green MSP Mark Ruskell is also back for another term at Holyrood.
The Lib Dems had hoped their overall performance would lead to a list MSP for Fife - something they have not had in the past - but they fell short when the results were announced.
The regional winners will join the five constituency representatives - the SNP quartet of David Torrance (Kirkcaldy), Jenny Gilruth (Glenrothes), David Barratt (Cowdenbeath), and Shirley Anne-Somerville (Dunfermline), plus Willie Rennie who swept all before him with the biggest majority in North-East Fife.