The placeConstituency · Scotland · 2010 boundaries

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

Alba Party MP Neale Hanvey holds the seat.

Member of ParliamentNeale Hanvey · Alba Party
Boundary set2010
ONS codeS14000041
Electorate · 2024
Registered to vote
2024 GE — winner
Settlements
0
Named built-up areas
Crime · per 1k pop · 3mo
data.police.uk · 12mo rolling
Dispatch
1 Jun 2026

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath's MP presents an almost invisible parliamentary footprint in the available data. No votes recorded, no speeches logged, no committee memberships, and no significant news coverage combine to make Neale Hanvey one of the harder MPs to assess through conventional parliamentary metrics. Whether this reflects a data gap or limited Westminster engagement is difficult to determine from the figures alone.

As an Alba Party MP -- a micro-party with a handful of seats -- Hanvey operates outside the main parliamentary blocs, which can reduce opportunities to vote or speak in debates where larger parties dominate proceedings. Alba's position as a Scottish independence party also shapes its Westminster strategy: some smaller nationalist parties adopt a selective or limited engagement approach at Westminster as a matter of political principle, which may contextualise the absence of recorded activity.

It is worth noting the constituency listed -- Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath -- is a Scottish seat, not in England as the data header suggests; this appears to be a data labelling error. Hanvey has held the seat since December 2019, originally elected as an SNP candidate before defecting to Alba. Beyond this background, the available data is too thin to draw meaningful conclusions about his recent parliamentary behaviour. Constituents seeking a clearer picture of his current activity may find more useful information through his own communications, local press, or the Alba Party's published positions.

§ 06Election history.4 contests · created on 2010 boundaries

2019 — full result.

CandidateVotes%
Neale HanveyWONSNP16,56835.3
Lesley LairdLab15,32532.6
Kathleen LeslieCon9,44920.1
Gill Cole-HamiltonLD2,9036.2
Scott RutherfordGrn1,6283.5
Mitch WilliamInd1,1322.4

Turnout 47,005

Prior contests.

YearWinner%
2017Lesley LairdLab36.8
2015Roger MullinSNP52.2
2010Brown, GordonLab64.5
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BoundariesONS Open Geography Portal
2010 boundary review
Wards & councilsLGBCE · Democracy Club
DCLEAPIL v1.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SettlementsONS Built-Up Areas
Census 2021
Crimedata.police.uk
LSOA-aggregated · rolling 12mo
ElectionsElectoral Commission