Live Feed: Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Results
The results for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire are rolling in.
16:30 1st Count:
Labour – 66925
Conservative – 61741
Liberal Democrat – 19492
UKIP – 30381
This shows both an increase in turnout from the 2012 PCC election and also a huge increase for both Conservative and UKIP. Numbers for the 1st Count in 2012 were Lab -50028, Conservative – 27690, UKIP – 18097, Ind -17093.
16:30 2nd Count Commences
17:45 Chesterfield
Labour – 1357
Conservative – 1421
16:46 Derbyshire Dales
Labour – 837
Conservative – 1421
16:56 High Peak
Labour – 690
Conservative – 968
16:57 South Derbyshire
Labour – 690
Conservative – 1111
16: 59 Amber Valley (This is us)
Labour – 1859
Conservative – 2317
17:02 Erewash
Labour -1054
Conservative -1358
17:03 NE Derbyshire
Labour – 980
Conservative – 1191
17:06 Bolsover
Labour -645
Conservative – 610
17:14 Derby City
Labour – 3586
Conservative – 5338
Final tally of the counts for the 1st and 2nd counts:
Labour – 78858
Conservative – 77245
Labour wins the Police and Crime Commissioner election and Hardyal Singh Dhindsa will become the new Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire.
Congratulations to Mr. Dhindsa, what I write is not connected to him personally in anyway, but is my opinion about the role of Police and Crime Commissioners in general. It concerns me that the public accept the role of Police and Crime Commissioner as a beneficial one. It was created in 2012 by Theresa May, which should immediately ring alarm bells. Before the 2015 elections Yvette Cooper, Labour shadow Home Secretary, promised to scrap the role of PCCs if Labour won the next election. Whether this would have happened we will never know, but Labour are obviously still standing candidates for the position. The posts were supposed to increase accountability, but there has been controversy over how some PCCs have behaved in the past. If my findings are correct the present law does not allow even the Home Secretary to remove a PCC from office. Yeterdays PCC election will have cost in the region of £500 million pounds and some PCCs earn around £100,000 per annum. It would appear that several PCCs have been involved in expenses scandals or investigated over possible criminal offences, although none have been charged. I rest my case.
Hi Sandra, some of that context was in the article on the PCC election. The LibDem candidate wanted to abolish the position too – change from within. Would you like to write an opinion piece for us on the topic?
Hi,
I am not sure what I could add that would be valuable. Four years ago, in a different county, I was appalled to find a candidate for PCC attempting to win votes by targeting an ethnic minority group. This made me realise how open to misuse the role could be. I fully intended to spoil my ballot paper until I realised that the LibDem candidate wanted to approach the problem from within. The Green Party have a similar approach, so either choose not to stand a candidate in elections or, like the LibDems, hope to make change from within.