Police & Crime Commissioner Elections

Stephen Bett has been ousted as Norfolk police and crime commissioner after years overseeing the county's force.

Mr Bett was ruled out following the first count, after coming fourth, leaving the Tories and Labour to fight it out for the role.

Conservative Lorne Green was eventually voted in with more than 60,000 votes.

Conservative candidate Roger Hirst has replaced his fellow Tory Nick Alston as Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex.

Mr Hirst was already 30,000 votes ahead of his nearest rival, UKIP's Bob Spink, following the first count.

The redistribution of the other candidates' second choices helped push him over the 50% mark, with a total of 135,948 votes.

Bedfordshire's outspoken inaugural Police and Crime Commissioner has been beaten by his Conservative rival.

Olly Martins was the only Labour PCC in the region following the 2012 election.

But, following the second count, he today lost the role to Tory Kathryn Holloway by nearly 2,000 votes.

The Tories will continue to oversee the police in Cambridgeshire - despite fielding a new candidate for 2016.

Sir Graham Bright stood down after four years in the role from 2012 to 2016.

Conservative Jason Ablewhite was voted in following the second count, beating Labour candidate Dave Baigent.

The Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd has been re-elected in Hertfordshire.

Mr Lloyd took 42% of first preference votes compared with the former Labour MP Kerry Pollard coming in second with 27% of the vote.

The Liberal Democrats beat UKIP into third place.

The Conservative candidate Stephen Mold has been elected Police & Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire.

He replaces fellow Tory Adam Simmonds who stepped down from the role after one term in office.

Mr Mold took 41% of the vote in the first count with Labour's Kevin McKeever second on 36%.

Once second preference votes from the rejected UKIP candidate Sam Watts were taken into account, Mr Mold won by more than 9,000 votes.

Conservative candidate Tim Passmore will continue as Suffolk's Police and Crime Commissioner, as the first of the region's results come in.

The current PCC won both the first count and second count, when the alternative preferences of those people voting for candidates who had not made the top two were redistributed.

An extra 45,000 people went to the polls compared with the first ever PCC election in 2012 but the turn out in Suffolk was still less than a quarter of the electorate.