PCC election result

The results of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections in the Northumbria area are as follows:

1. Vera Baird, Labour, 100,170 votes, 56%

2. Phil Butler, Conservatives, 45,845 votes; 25.6%

3. Alistair Baxter, UKIP, 18,876 votes, 10.6%

4. Peter Andras, Liberal Democrats, 13,916 votes, 7.8%

The turnout in the Northumbria area was 16.4%. The number of spoiled ballot papers was 3,887 representing 2.12% of all used ballot papers.

I would like to thank everybody who voted for the Liberal Democrats in the Northumbria PCC elections.