Capt. Wedgwood Benn (Labour) ..
.. 10,646 Dr. Laura Sandeman (Conservative) .. . • 4,696 Mr. Aitken Ferguson (Communist)
2,618 Mr. J. R. Rutherford (Liberal) .. • • .. 2,337 Labour majority over Conservative .. .. 5,950
At the General Election the Labour candidate polled 13,249 votes to the 8,545 of Miss Sandeman. We would rather have seen a Unionist returned, and it is, of course, no serious satisfaction to us to note that a Southron has polled in Aberdeen more votes than the three Scots. together. But Captain Benn will be welcomed back to Westminster as a popular member and a very gallant man. He is a great loss to the Liberal Party (which again was at the bottom of the poll), but we hope that his new allegiance will not cramp the pertinacious advocacy of free exchange for which he taught us to look to him. * * * *
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