{"id":646843,"date":"2026-06-19T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646843\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T08:16:09","slug":"scottish-tories-win-first-westminster-by-election-in-more-than-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646843\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Tories win first Westminster by-election in more than 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Aberdeen is at the heart of the debate around the UK’s energy future<\/a>, and the UK government has chosen the city as the home of GB Energy – its fledgling publicly-owned energy company.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

She said the result is “particularly significant” due to the support from those who had “never voted Conservative before”.<\/p>\n

Badenoch added her party “is working to earn the trust of the country again”, and is “grateful and humbled” that residents of Aberdeen South voted for the Tories.<\/p>\n

“Makerfield was about one man’s job. Aberdeen South was about thousands of jobs in oil and gas across our country and the future of an entire city,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scottish by-elections were triggered when sitting MPs – Flynn and his SNP colleague Stephen Gethins – resigned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646843","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\/646843","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=646843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}