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LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) – The Conservative Party won a local election in the oil town of Aberdeen on Friday, \u200bthe first time the Scottish branch of the \u200cparty has won a so-called by-election contest for a Westminster parliamentary seat for the first time in 50 years.<\/div>\n
While the \u200bmost consequential local election for decades took place \u200bsouth of the border, where Labour’s Andy Burnham \u2060cleared a path to ousting Prime Minister Keir Starmer \u200bby winning a parliamentary seat in northern England, the \u200bScottish result was a fillip for the Conservative Party.<\/div>\n
The Conservatives are Britain’s main opposition party but they placed fourth in \u200bthe by-election Burnham won, registering only a tiny share \u200bof the vote.<\/div>\n
Conservative Douglas Lumsden took Aberdeen South from the Scottish \u200cNational \u2060Party, saying the result showed voters wanted to stop what he called “the destruction of the oil and gas industry”.<\/div>\n
As fossil fuel prices have risen during the \u200bIran war, the \u200bposition of \u2060Britain’s Labour government, which is focused on growing the renewable energy industry while only \u200ballowing new oil and gas licences near \u200bexisting \u2060fields, has stoked division.<\/div>\n
In another Scottish by-election for a Westminster seat in Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, about 70 miles \u2060north \u200bof Edinburgh, it was announced \u200bon Friday that Lara Bird had held the seat for the Scottish \u200bNational Party.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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