Results of the Police and Crime Commissioner election - 15 November 2012

Turnout percentage: 16.36%

Clive Robert Loader has been elected on the second count as Police and Crime Commissioner for the Leicestershire Police Area with 64,661 votes.

First count

The valid number of first preference votes cast for each of the candidates in each Local Authority area is as follows:

Local council

Clive Robert Loader

Conservative Party 

Suleman Nagdi

Independent

Sarah Christine Russell

Labour Party 

Blaby 6120 1257 2849
Charnwood 11062 2086 6051
Harborough 8424 1446 2262
Hinckley & Bosworth 6860 1314 3221
Leicester City 10615 11683 20679
Melton 3951 836 1288
North West Leicestershire 4930 898 3378
Oadby & Wigston 3975 1100 1933
Rutland 3978 672 842
Totals 59915 21292 42503

The total number of ballot papers verified is 127,082

The number of ballot papers rejected at the first count is as follows:

   Blaby  Charnwood  Harborough

 Hinckley & Bosworth

 Leicester City  Melton  North West Leicestershire  Oadby & Wigston Rutland   Totals
A - Want of an official mark  0

0

 0 0
B - Voting for more than one candidate  90  205

110

71

622 64  73  81  30  1346 
C - Writing or mark by which the voter could be identified  4 2 10 

28 
 D - Unmarked as to the first preference vote  106 208 26

40

179 69   30 65  87  810 
 E - Void for uncertainty  56 93  130 

176 

451  94  116  46  25  1187 

The total number of ballot papers rejected at the first count is 3,371

As no candidate received more than 50% of the valid first preference votes, every Local Returning Officer proceeded to count the second preference votes for the candidates who were not eliminated from the contest.

Second count

The valid number of second preference votes cast for each of the remaining candidates in each Local Authority area is as follows:

Local council

Clive Robert Loader

Conservative Party 

Sarah Christine Russell

Labour Party 

Blaby 437 482
Charnwood 670 873
Harborough 550 549
Hinckley & Bosworth 465 537
Leicester City 1397 5499
Melton 318 292
North West Leicestershire 324 356
Oadby & Wigston 322 489
Rutland 263 255
Totals 4746 9332

Please refer to the related documents for the statements for each local council area.

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