{"id":573496,"date":"2026-05-08T19:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573496\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:55:19","slug":"five-election-moments-you-may-have-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573496\/","title":{"rendered":"Five election moments you may have missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New rules mean two MPs who stood and won seats in the Scottish Parliament will need to stand down from Westminster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under the rules, it&#8217;s not permitted to be an MP and an MSP. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has won a seat in the Scottish Parliament as MSP for Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine, he has 49 days to step down from Westminster and allow a by-election in his seat of Aberdeen South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flynn, who has been widely tipped as a future SNP leader, said he would be a champion for North Sea oil and gas workers, those struggling with the cost of living and &#8220;young people searching for hope and aspiration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another Stephen, this time Stephen Gethins, will also need to step down as an MP now he has won the Dundee City East seat at Holyrood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gethins had been elected as the MP for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry in 2024 and shortly afterwards announced he would seek a dual mandate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That means another by-election for his Westminster seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New rules mean two MPs who stood and won seats in the Scottish Parliament will need to stand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}