NOMINATIONS closed for the 2017 General Election on Friday and 13 candidates will fight out the three seats in Times Land.

The Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat which houses 80 per cent of the area's population has five candidates.

Roger Mullin, the sitting MP, will defend for the SNP with Lesley Laird, the depute leader of Fife Council until the elections last week fighting the seat for Labour.

The Conservative leader on the council, Dave Dempsey, will take up the battle for the Tories, having fought the seat before and also the Cowdenbeath billet at Holyrood; and the fifth candidate is UKIP heavyweight campaigner David Coburn, who has been the party's spokesperson north of the border.

In Glenrothes and Central Fife, which also includes Cardenden and Kinglassie, Peter Grant will lead the defence for the SNP.

He will be taken on by Altany Craik, for Labour; Conservative Andrew Brown and Rebecca Bell for the Lib/Dems.

In Dunfermline and West Fife, which includes Crossgates, Hill of Beath and the Moss-side part of Cowdenbeath, Douglas Chapman will defend the seat for the SNP with Belinda Hacking, of the Conservatives; Cara Hilton, of Labour and James Calder battling for the Liberal Democrats.

Like in the council elections the Times will be running hustings pages on the run-up to the June 8 polling day, giving the candidates the chance to air their topic of particular weeks.