1928 Aberdeen North by-election
The 1928 Aberdeen North by-election was held on Thursday, 16 August 1928.The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Labour MP, Frank Herbert Rose.It was won by the Labour candidate William Wedgwood Benn.[1][2] The by-election was one of the first elections in the UK where a Communist candidate stood against Labour since Comintern had abandoned its policy of entryism, with the candidacy of Aitken Ferguson, a member of the local Trades Council,[3] who had been the Labour candidate in the 1924 Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election.This article about a by-election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Scotland is a stub.
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