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Posted on 06/19/2026 12:48:01 AM PDT by RandFan
The Scottish Conservatives have won a Westminster by-election for the first time in more than 50 years, taking Aberdeen South from the SNP.
The seat, vacated by the SNP's Stephen Flynn, was won by Tory MSP Douglas Lumsden.
Shortly afterwards the SNP claimed a victory in the Arbroath and Broughty Ferry by-election where Lara Bird held the seat for the party.
Lumsden, who is unable to sit in both parliaments due to a Holyrood ban on so-called dual mandates, is to resign from Holyrood just six weeks after winning re-election as a North East MSP.
South of the border, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election, paving the way for him to challenge Sir Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader.
The Scottish by-elections were triggered when sitting MPs - Flynn and his SNP colleague Stephen Gethins - resigned from the House of Commons after being elected to Holyrood.
Aberdeen is at the heart of the debate around the UK's energy future, and the UK government has chosen the city as the home of GB Energy - its fledgling publicly-owned energy company.
Lumsden, a former oil and gas worker, said his constituents had sent a message that "the destruction of the oil and gas industry must stop now".
The North East MSP defeated SNP candidate Richard Thomson, a former MP for Gordon, by a margin of more than 6,000 votes, with the Tories taking almost half of all ballots cast.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has lauded her party's win in Aberdeen South as a "significant" result, promising that she will "never stop fighting" for its constituents.
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Yes, and then there was a third one, also in Scotland, won by the SNP.
However, apart from the Makerfield election the one in Aberdeen-South was the most important one, since it goes to the heart of one of Britain’s main real problems: energy supply and the net-zero idiocy.
Who Votes by Post? Understanding the Drivers of Postal Voting in the 2019 British General Election
From the above...
...In Britain, the Representation of the People Act 2000 allowed voters to register as a postal voter—either temporarily or on a permanent basis—on demand when they register to vote via their local authority (Stewart, 2006)...
What could go wrong...
>since it goes to the heart of one of Britain’s main real problems: energy supply and the net-zero idiocy.
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The candidate was an oil and gas worker and referenced this in the article,. It must have been a big issue.
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