Glenrothes & Mid Fife.

Glenrothes and Mid Fife is a central-Scotland seat of around 92,662 people, with a median age of 44 and an electorate of 70,655 on boundaries first used in 2024. The new town of Glenrothes anchors the constituency, its name attached to several wards, but the seat draws in a spread of smaller communities -- Methil, Buckhaven and the Wemyss villages on the coast, Markinch, Leslie, Thornton and Kinglassie inland, and the Lochgelly, Cardenden and Benarty grouping to the west. This is less a single-town seat than a network of post-industrial settlements stitched together. All of it falls under Fife, the unitary council that runs local services across the seat's five wards.

The local political picture is mixed and not especially recent. The most recent full round of ward contests, held in 2022, returned the Scottish National Party in ten of the eighteen seats counted, Labour in seven and the Conservatives in one, with several wards splitting their representation between the SNP and Labour on turnouts in the region of 4,500 to 6,300. The parliamentary contest has since cut the other way. At the 2024 general election -- the first fought on these boundaries -- Labour took the seat on 44.3 per cent, ahead of the SNP on 36.1 per cent, a margin of roughly eight points. Richard Baker has held it for Labour since that election.

On the figures available, the seat reads as competitive rather than settled: a Labour parliamentary win sits over a council map on which the SNP remains the larger ward force, and the most recent ward verdicts are now some years old. Recent local reporting has had a flat, administrative character, weighted toward roads budgets, council housing decisions and the maintenance of local services rather than national controversy. Baker's early Commons interventions have clustered on the economy, defence and social care. The combination -- a fresh Labour gain, an SNP-leaning local base and a quiet press profile -- leaves the constituency looking contestable rather than safe for any single party.