After three recounts, and on a margin so thin it amounted to 0.004% of the vote, the SNP held on in North East Fife by the skin of two teeth back in 2017.
Two years ago, a pair of votes separated the nationalists’ Stephen Gethins and then-Liberal Democrat candidate Elizabeth Riches.
Perhaps losing by such fine margins scarred Ms Riches, because this time round, Wendy Chamberlain is contesting the constituency for the Lib Dems.
A former police officer, Chamberlain has previously stood for the party in council elections and as its Westminster candidate for Stirling two years ago.
Chamberlain told STV News: “We’re very confident. We held this seat from 1987 to 2015… and we’ve had Willie Rennie here as the constituency MSP since 2016.
“So this is definitely a seat with a Liberal tradition and having come so close in 2017, absolutely, it’s our top target seat.”
She concedes that the party still gets some negative feedback on the doorstep about its time in coalition government with the Conservatives from 2010 to 2015.
The Lib Dem candidate said: “I do genuinely believe that we went into coalition in 2010 with an intention to do the right thing as a response to the economic crisis.
“I do get it occasionally on the doorsteps – tuition fees very occasionally as well – but in the main we’re in a completely different scenario now post-EU referendum.”
Chamberlain believes Brexit, and local opposition to it, is the defining issue here and says the Liberal Democrats offer the “clearest, most positive Remain option” for voters.
“It’s quite clear in the last three and a half years from people I have spoken to, and working with Willie Rennie, that there are a number of economies within North East Fife, tourism for example, University of St Andrews as our major employer, agriculture and our fisheries, that are going to be negatively impacted by Brexit,” she said.
“There’s no evidence to me that the position of this constituency has changed – it’s a Remain constituency.”
But in the SNP’s Stephen Gethins, she must unseat another Remain candidate who has spent years burnishing his pro-European credentials.
Since first arriving in the House of Commons in 2015, he has been set up for big things by his party, almost immediately becoming the SNP’s Europe spokesman at Westminster.
Just two months on, Gethins became the first ever SNP member of the Commons foreign affairs select committee.
But in Theresa May’s 2017 snap poll, he saw a relatively robust majority of more than 4000 slashed to just two.
That didn’t prevent new SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford from promoting him to his frontbench as international affairs and Europe spokesman.
It’s a sign of the party leadership’s view of his abilities – with another being how often Gethins can be found representing the SNP on news and current affairs programmes.
