North East Fife (district)

North East Fife was one of three local government districts in the Fife region of Scotland from 1975 to 1996.

History

The district was created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government across mainland Scotland comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. North East Fife was one of three districts created within the region of Fife, along with Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy. The district covered the whole area of 15 former districts from the historic county of Fife, which were all abolished at the same time:

Auchtermuchty Burgh
Crail Burgh
Cupar Burgh
Cupar District
Elie and Earlsferry Burgh
Falkland Burgh
Kilrenny, Anstruther Easter and Anstruther Wester Burgh
Ladybank Burgh
Newburgh Burgh
Newport-on-Tay Burgh
Pittenweem Burgh
St Andrews Burgh
St Andrews District
St Monance Burgh
Tayport Burgh

In 1996 Scotland's districts and regions were abolished under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Fife became a single unitary council area, headquartered in Glenrothes as the regional council had also been.

The area is still covered by the North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency).

Political control

The first election to the district council was held in 1974, initially operating as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until it came into its powers on 16 May 1975. Political control of the council from 1975 was as follows:

{| class="wikitable"

!colspan="2"|Party in control!!Years

| || 1975–1984

| || 1984–1988

| || 1988–1996

Elections

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!rowspan=2|Year

!rowspan=2|Seats

!width="80"|Liberal Democrats

!width="80"|Conservative

!width="80"|Independent / Other

!rowspan=2|Notes

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| 1974 || 18 || 0 || 13 || 5 || align=left|

| 1977 || 18 || 1 || 14 || 3 || align=left|

| 1980 || 18 || 5 || 11 || 2 || align=left|

| 1984 || 18 || 10 || 6 || 2 || align=left|

| 1988 || 18 || 12 || 4 || 2 || align=left|

| 1992 || 18 || 13 || 4 || 1 || align=left|

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District result maps

File:North-East Fife District Council election, 1980.svg|1980 results map

File:North-East Fife District Council election, 1984.svg|1984 results map

File:North-East Fife District Council election, 1988.svg|1988 results map

File:North-East Fife District Council election, 1992.svg|1992 results map

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Premises

The council was based at County Buildings on St Catherine Street in Cupar. The building had been built in 1817 as the county's sheriff court and meeting place for the Commissioners of Supply which preceded the county council. It had then served as the headquarters of Fife County Council between 1890 and 1975, with a large extension to the east being added in 1925.