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    Elections to the Dunfermline District Council took place in May 1988, alongside elections to the councils of Scotland's various other districts. The number...
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    Dunfermline (/dʌnˈfɜːrmlɪn/ ; Scots: Dunfaurlin, Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, former Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, 3 miles (5 km)...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for 1988 Leeds City Council election
    The Leeds City Council elections were held on Thursday, 5 May 1988, with one third of the council and a vacancy in Headingley to be elected. Following...
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    The 1988 Bristol City Council election took place on 5 May 1988 to elect members of Bristol City Council in England. This was on the same day as other...
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    Shetland by-election, Lib Dem hold 2017 Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire by-election, Con hold 2014 Cowdenbeath by-election, Lab hold 2013 Dunfermline by-election...
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    Elections to the Wigan council were held on Thursday, 5 May 1988, with one third of the seats up for election as well as an extra vacancy in Beech Hill...
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    1983–2005: North East Fife District. 2005–present: The area of the Fife Council other than those parts in the constituencies of Dunfermline and West Fife, Glenrothes...
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  • Elections to Manchester Council were held on Thursday, 5 May 1988. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve...
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    Local elections were held in Scotland on 5 May 1988, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which...
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    2018. "Council control - Falkirk". Falkirk Council. Retrieved 4 January 2022. "Fife Council agree to SNP and Labour joint partnership". Dunfermline Press...
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  • Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 5 May 1988. One third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of...
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    metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election. In 117 districts one third of the council was up for election. Rallings, Colin;...
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    Elections to Sheffield City Council were held on 5 May 1988. One third of the council was up for election. This result had the following consequences...
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    Elections to Trafford Council in the United Kingdom were held on 5 May 1988. One-third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate...
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    Malcolm III granted the settlement to the church of Dunfermline. David I later gave the burgh to Dunfermline Abbey, which had succeeded the church: a status...
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    Peterhead branch. In the May 1992 local elections for Banff and Buchan District Council, Murrell was election agent for candidates in both the Longside...
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  • Douglas Mason (category People from Dunfermline)
    served on Fife County Council from 1967 to 1970 and on Kirkcaldy District Council from 1974 to 1988. In the 1983 general election, he stood unsuccessfully...
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  • continue for much of the decade, and at the 1977 district elections the SNP saw victories at councils including East Kilbride and Falkirk and held the...
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    Committee in 1975. On 5 May 1977, he contested his first election campaign in the Scottish district elections, but failed to hold the safe Labour Gillburn ward...
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    two-tier regions and districts and unitary islands council areas, and the regions and districts were replaced with unitary council areas in 1996. The history...
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    elections. All 36 metropolitan borough councils had one third of their seats up for election. In one district the whole council was up for election as...
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    lasted until the next election in 2022. The 2022 City of Edinburgh Council election resulted in the most politically balanced council in the UK, with 19...
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  • Thüngen, German nobleman (b. c. 1466) 1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland...
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    Local elections were held in Scotland on 7 May 1992, to elect members to all 53 district councils. It was the last local election held under the Local...
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    and burgh in west Fife, Scotland. It is 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Dunfermline and 18 miles (29 km) north of the capital, Edinburgh. The town grew up...
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    Henry McLeish (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    1974, then as a planning officer for Fife County Council from 1974 to 1975 and Dunfermline District Council from 1975 to 1987. He also worked as a part-time...
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    6, 2023. Retrieved November 6, 2023. "Ryder Cup: Painting celebrates Dunfermline links to American golf". BBC. September 22, 2014. Archived from the original...
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    "Councils next for PR in Scotland". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 6 March 2023. "PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS -...
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    administration. There are eight cities in Scotland: Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Stirling and Perth. City status in the...
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