The Kincardine and Deeside by-election was a parliamentary election held in

Kincardine and Deeside Kincardine and Deeside was formerly (1975–96) a local government district in the Grampian Region of Scotland. In 1996 it was included in the Aberdeenshire unitary area. History This region is rich in prehistory with numerous megalithic si ...

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, on 7 November 1991, caused by the death of the Conservative

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, Alick Buchanan-Smith on 29 August 1991. The result was a

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gain from the Conservatives, with

Nicol Stephen Nicol Ross Stephen, Baron Stephen (born 23 March 1960) is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, he ...

elected as the new MP. Stephen held the seat until the 1992 general election when it was regained by the Conservatives. The Labour candidate,

Malcolm Savidge Malcolm Kemp Savidge (born 9 May 1946 in Surrey, England) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen North, in Scotland, from the 1997 general election until he stood down at the 2005 ge ...

, who finished in fourth place at this by-election, went on to be elected as the MP for Aberdeen North at the 1997 general election.

was elected as Member of the Scottish Parliament for Aberdeen South in 1999 and became Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats in 2005. It was held on the same day as a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

in Langbaurgh, which the Conservatives also lost.

Results

Previous result

References

External links

Campaign literature from the by-election
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