Kirkcaldy forms part of the Kirkcaldy constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( or Holyrood ), and is one of nine within the Mid Scotland and Fife electoral region.

Kirkcaldy is part of the pan-Scotland European Parliament constituency, which elects seven Members of the European Parliament ( MEPs ).

The university also has additional facilities at Ninewells Hospital – containing its School of Medicine, Perth Royal Infirmary – which houses a clinical research centre, and in Kirkcaldy, Fife – containing part of its school of Nursing and Midwifery.

The paintings were first shown in an exhibition, Hommage à Tuiga, in Monaco but will be available to a much wider audience when they are shown as part of a touring exhibition that opens at the Kirkcaldy Museum in Fife in March 2010.

The school was established in 1582 as Kirkcaldy Burgh School ; the " High School " name dates from the middle part of the 19th century.

The High School was originally on St Brycedale Avenue and part of the old building is now incorporated into Kirkcaldy College.

In 2005 the seat was abolished, being mostly replaced by Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath with a small portion becoming part of Glenrothes.

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is a county constituency representing the areas around the towns of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, in Fife, Scotland, in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Also, the Fife Circle line between Edinburgh and the county of Fife acts like a giant balloon loop, branching off after Inverkeithing and connecting again at Kirkcaldy.

Kirkcaldy was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Fife, returning one Member of Parliament ( MP ).

Kirkcaldy was represented by the constituency of Dysart Burghs from 1707 to 1832, which was formed from the burgh itself and three other burghs, Dysart, Kinghorn, and Burntisland.

Under the Reform Act of 1832, the constituency of Kirkcaldy Burghs was created.

Following a review of the review of Scottish Parliament constituency boundaries, the Kirkcaldy constituency was extended along the coast, taking in the Buckhaven, Methil, and Wemyss Villages ward, ahead of the 2011 elections.

It was created for the 2005 general election from most of the old Kirkcaldy constituency and parts of Dunfermline East constituency.

Along with Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, the towns of Burntisland, Dalgety Bay, Dysart, Kelty, and Lochgelly and the villages of Aberdour, Auchtertool, Ballingry, Crosshill, Glencraig, Kinghorn, Lochore and Lumphinnans make up the constituency.

The constituency was centred around the town of Kirkcaldy.

From 1885 the constituency consisted of the parishes of Abbotshall, Aberdour, Auchterderran, Auchtertool, Ballingry, Beath, Burntisland, Dalgetty, Dunfermline, Dysart, Inverkeithing, Kinghorn, Kinglassie, Kirkcaldy, Leslie, Markinch, Saline, Torryburn and Wemyss.

Most of Dunfermline East and its neighbouring constituency Kirkcaldy now make up the new seat of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

Gordon Brown of the Labour Party is the Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

Jim Dobbin was born in Kincardine on Forth, Fife, Scotland, the son of a coal miner, and educated at the Catholic Saint Columba's High School, Cowdenbeath, and the Catholic St Andrew's High School on Overton Road in Kirkcaldy.

The south and eastern boundaries of Cowdenbeath are circumscribed by the A92 main road to Kirkcaldy, and beyond that the peat-bog and petrochemichal plant of Mossmorran.

Starting at its junction with the M90 motorway near Dunfermline, it runs north east past Cowdenbeath, Lochgelly, Kirkcaldy, Glenrothes, Ladybank and Newport-on-Tay.

Fife is the largest operator in the region and is responsible for urban, rural and interurban services in the towns of St Andrews, Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath, Methil, Glenrothes, Leven and Kirkcaldy.

On 18 May 2009, the Cowdenbeath head office was relocated to Evans House, John Smith Business Park, Kirkcaldy.

The royal burgh merged into Kirkcaldy District, which was one of three districts within the Fife region.

His appointment at Haddington he exchanged for a similar one at Kirkcaldy, Fife, in 1812.

The Maggie's Centres in Dundee, Kirkcaldy and Inverness have all been nominated, with the one in Inverness by

Banff, Bathgate, Blairgowrie, Bo ' ness, Campbeltown, Carnoustie, Coatbridge, Craigmarloch, Crieff, Cumbernauld, Dalgety Bay, Dalkeith, Dingwall, Dumfries, Dunbar, Dundee ( two ), Dunfermline, Edinburgh ( two ), Elgin, Forfar, Forres, Fort William, Galloway, Govan ( Paisley Road West ), Grangemouth, Greenock, Haddington, Helensburgh, Inverness, Inverurie, Keith, Kilmarnock, Kirkcaldy, Kirkintilloch, Kirriemuir, Lanark, Linlithgow, Milngavie, Monifieth, Montrose, Oban, Perth ( two ; one on Victoria Street in the city centre and one on the Crieff Road ), Rosyth, St Andrews, Stranraer, and Wishaw.

In 1988 and 1989 he participated as one of the ten artists in the show titled " Polish Perceptions-Ten Contemporary Photographers, 1977-1988 " at the Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, the Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, and Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Fife, Scotland.

* Oswald-Named after an old Kirkcaldy family, at one time associated with the Dunnikier estate, on which the school is now sited.

John Ross himself penned that first entry, which read: “ Sale to David Kirkcaldy at Ardmore, one gallon of whisky at £ 1. 8. 0d ”.

The first Member of Parliament to be elected to the House of Commons from Kirkcaldy was Colonel Abercrombie in 1710.

Prior to the Act of Union in 1707, Kirkcaldy sent a Member of Parliament to the old Scottish Parliament, which usually met in Edinburgh.

He was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Kirkcaldy from 1987 to 2005.

He was elected at the 1987 general election as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Kirkcaldy, and served until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2005 general election.

* Robert Reid ( Kirkcaldy Burghs MP ), British Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy Burghs, 1874 – 1875

He was elected Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy Burghs in 1931 but lost his seat to Labour in 1935.

The Kirkcaldy seat was won at the 2011 Scottish Parliament elections by David Torrance for the Scottish National Party ( SNP ).

First standing for the UK Parliament at the 1992 Westminster Election in Kirkcaldy, Hosie went on to stand for both the Westminster and Scottish parliaments.

Adam was born on the 3 July 1728 at Gladney House in Kirkcaldy, Fife, although the family moved to Edinburgh later that same year.

Munro Ferguson was born Ronald Craufurd Ferguson at his family home in the Raith area near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the son and eldest child of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Ferguson, a wealthy member of the British House of Commons of old Scottish descent.

Kirkcaldy Town House

Kirkcaldy Town House is the main administrative headquarters for the Kirkcaldy area within the local authority.

Raith House and Raith Tower sit on Cormie Hill to the west of Kirkcaldy and several parts of the town are built on land formerly of the Raith Estate, although the modern housing estate bearing the Raith name dates from long after the origins of the team.

* the House of Commons ( Redistribution of Seats )( Scotland )( West Fife and Kirkcaldy Burghs ) Order 1953 ; and