Tuesday 20 November 2012

The Police Commissioner elections - how Cornwall voted


Cornwall Council has just published individual “results” for the various local authority areas for the Police Commissioner elections. The result for Cornwall, on a 15.2% turnout, was as follows:

Name
Description
Votes
Anthony Hogg
Conservative
18,432
Brian Blake
Liberal Democrat
8,496
Nichola Williams
Labour
6,935
Robert Smith
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
6,175
Brian Greenslade
Independent
5,483
William Morris
Independent
4,065
Graham Calderwood
Independent
3,946
Ivan Jordan
Independent
3,552
John Smith
Independent
3,132
Thomas Macpherson
Independent
1,536
Rejected papers

1,926
Total

63,678

Overall, it is the Liberal Democrats who must be most worried by the result.

The 8,496 votes achieved by the Lib Dems was only 7.3% of the 117,307 votes they managed in the 2010 General Election.

By comparison, the Conservatives managed 16% of the 115,016 votes they garnered in 2010, while Labour managed 28.6% of their 24,257 votes they won in 2010.

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