TWO SNP councillors have been elected in Fife after by-election votes.
The polls returned SNP representatives with a majority of at least 300 votes.
Derek Glen was selected to represent the Dunfermline Central ward, while former councillor Sharon Green-Wilson won back her seat in Rosyth after slumping to fourth place in 2017.
The wins push the SNP majority on Fife Council to six, with 30 councillors now representing the party, after one of the seats won was taken from the Conservatives.
Labour are the closest party to the SNP with 24 representatives.
The contest was under the Single Transferable Vote electoral system, meaning voters were asked to rank the candidates in order of preference.
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Glen took 1526 first choice votes in his ward, ahead of Tory candidate Chloe Dodds in second with 1142, increasing the SNP share of the vote by more than 9%.
LibDem candidate Aude Boubaker-Calder increased his party's share of the vote by nearly 14%, taking the total number of first choice votes cast to 1050.
Boubaker-Calder also managed to come within two total votes of Glen after votes were transferred, despite being more than 500 first choice selections behind.
Meanwhile, Sharon Green-Wilson won a resounding victory in Rosyth with 1347 votes, with her nearest challenger – Tory Margaret Fairgrieve – receiving 768.
The councillor increased the share of the vote for her party in the ward by 16.5%.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon congratulated the new councillors on Twitter, saying: "Many congratulations to @theSNP two newest councillors - @sharonwilsonsnp in Rosyth and @derekgglen in Dunfermline."
Green-Wilson previously won her Rosyth seat in 2015 through a by-election before defeat in 2017.
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