The Conservatives have won Aberdeen South by more than 6,000 votes in a by-election Kemi Badenoch had called a “referendum” on North Sea oil and gas The Tories overturned a SNP majority of 3,758 after the vote of Scotland's ruling party collapsed in the first poll since the Peter Murrell scandal. Douglas Lumsden, who worked in the oil and gas sector for 20 years, won by more than 6,050 votes on a 50 per cent share of the vote, beating SNP candidate Richard Gordon Thomson.