Police Commisioner Elections : November 2012

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While I have the chance to do so =


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales_Police_and_Crime_Commissioner_elections,_2012

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Oh it'll be fiiiiiine

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Yep, seen the title and groaned.

Wait until we start getting the candidates selected. Then the fun will start. Mark my words!






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Police areas in England and Wales are still largely based on the 1974 patterns of local government.  Here's a list of the areas having elections:

Northumbria - Northumberland; Tyne & Wear
Durham - includes Darlington but not the "Cleveland" unitaries
Cleveland - Stockton, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland
Cumbria
Lancashire - includes the 1990s unitaries of Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen
Merseyside
Greater Manchester
North Yorkshire - includes York
Humberside - the East Riding including Hull, N Lincs, NE Lincs
West Yorkshire
South Yorkshire
Derbyshire - includes the City of Derby
Nottinghamshire - includes the City of Nottingham
Lincolnshire - just the County Council area
Leicestershire - includes Rutland and the City of Leicester
Cheshire - Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester, Halton, Warrington
Staffordshire - includes Stoke
West Midlands - the Metropolitan County
West Mercia - Shropshire including Telford & Wrekin, Herefordshire, Worcestershire
Warwickshire
Northamptonshire
Norfolk
Suffolk
Cambridgeshire - includes Peterborough
Essex - includes Thurrock and Southend
Bedfordshire - Bedford, Central Beds, Luton
Hertfordshire
Thames Valley - Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire including Milton Keynes, the Berkshire unitaries
Gloucestershire - excludes South Glos
Avon & Somerset - Somerset, B&NES, North Somerset, Bristol, South Glos
Devon & Cornwall - includes the Plymouth and Torbay unitaries
Wiltshire - includes Swindon
Dorset - includes the Poole and Bournemouth unitaries
Hampshire - includes the Portsmouth and Southampton unitaries and the Isle of Wight
Surrey
Sussex - both East and West, and Brighton & Hove
Kent - includes the Medway unitary

South Wales - Cardiff, Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil
Gwent - Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen, Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly
Dyfed-Powys - Powys, Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire
North Wales - Flintshire, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Conwy, Gwynedd, Ynys Môn

So does that mean I may be permitted or not?

Go for it, Harry, nobody seems to be against the idea that I can see.

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I think AV was explained in more detail during the referendum than SV has been at all throughout the 'campaign'

There will be some almighty bonkers results I suggest (and fear)

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South Yorkshire: EngDem/UKIP/Con/LD/Lab

Ugh.  I have a particular dislike for the English Democrats, and a sort of paranoid fear involving  them and low turnout SV elections.

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Is that the registered description of a political party?

Yes it is.

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Make no mistake, people will try and spin these results as good/bad/otherwise.

The fact that they're in England and Wales only, using two different voting systems, without a full slate by all parties, mean nowt.

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Alexmanu, you are slightly wrong with the Border Agency case. It was clear that he had gone beyond the instructions he had been given. Whether Theresa May was completely innocent is a matter for another thread

In any case, I doubt every winning Commissioner would be a Conservative, either, so you might  be misguided to label them all proponents of Tory dogma (whatever that may be)

BUT, all that said, I'm not entirely sure that I'd be voting with great enthusiasm either!

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Preston City Council area


First Preferences:

#pcc Police Commissioner results for Preston City council - Lab 6,537, Con 4,501, LibDem 2,243, UKIP 1,733. Rejected 419


Second Preferences:

Con 1,174
Lab  1,420

Second preference votes given to candidates remaining -  2,594
Second preference votes given to candidates eliminated - 703

Rejected  679