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| The Glenrothes by-election will take place on 6 November, Labour MPs have been told. | The Glenrothes by-election will take place on 6 November, Labour MPs have been told. |
| It has not yet been decided if Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be campaigning ahead of the contest. | It has not yet been decided if Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be campaigning ahead of the contest. |
| The seat, in Fife, has been vacant since the death of Labour MP John MacDougall in August. | |
| The Labour Party is defending a 10,600 majority from the last general election, in 2005. The by-election writ is expected to be moved on Tuesday. | |
| Writ expected | |
| Mr MacDougall, a former leader of Fife Council who was first elected to the Commons in 2001, was 60 when he died from mesothelioma. | |
| MPs were told of the selected by-election date at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday. | |
| Labour won Glenrothes in 2005 with 19,395 votes, followed by the Scottish National Party on 8,731, the Liberal Democrats on 4,728 and the Conservatives on 2,651. | |
| Labour has selected Lindsay Roy, the 59-year-old rector of Kirkcaldy High School, as its candidate. | |
| Peter Grant, leader of Fife Council, has been nominated by the party to contest the seat for the Scottish National Party. | |
| The Conservatives have chosen 28-year-old Maurice Golden, 28, an environmental campaign manager for Keep Scotland Beautiful, while businessman Harry Wills will run for the Liberal Democrats. |