{"id":644630,"date":"2026-06-18T03:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644630\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:41:16","slug":"voters-in-scotland-head-to-the-polls-for-westminster-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644630\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters in Scotland head to the polls for Westminster by-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Flynn and Gethins, who won Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry respectively for the SNP at the 2024 general election, had to resign their seats to take up a place at Holyrood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The SNP&#8217;s rivals are hoping to overturn Flynn&#8217;s majority<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election\/2024\/uk\/constituencies\/S14000061\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> of almost 4,000 votes in Aberdeen South<\/a>, and Gethins&#8217; majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/election\/2024\/uk\/constituencies\/S14000066\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about 900 votes<\/a> in Arbroath and Broughty Ferry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, in north west England, Labour&#8217;s Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham is widely anticipated to launch a bid to oust Starmer as prime minister if he wins the Makerfield by-election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For each of the by-elections, voters must have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/how-to-vote\/photo-id-youll-need\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">photo ID, external<\/a> to cast their ballot at polling stations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unlike the recent Holyrood election, counting will take place overnight with the results expected in the early hours of Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flynn and Gethins, who won Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry respectively for the SNP at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644630","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\/644630","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=644630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}