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3 May 2016

Police and Crime Commissioner Elections 2016

Police and Crime Commissioners for Cleveland, Northumbria, North Yorkshire and Durham forces are being elected. Find out the results for all four forces here.

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There was no change in the North East as all four Police and Crime Commissioners were re-elected.

Vera Baird was re-elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria:

Vera Baird (Lab) 180,479
Stewart Hay (Con) 58,713
Melanie Hurst (UKIP) 52,293
Jonathan Wallace (LD) 34,75

Ron Hogg was re-elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Durham:

Peter Cutherbertson (Conservative) 18,797
Ron Hogg (Labour) 50,915
Craig Martin (Liberal Democrat) 10,060

Julia Mulligan was re-elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire after second preference votes were counted.

Results after second round of votes:

Julia Mulligan (Conservative) 65,018 votes
Steve Howley (Labour) 44,759

Results after first round of votes:

James Blanchard (Lib Dem) 13,856
Julia Mulligan (Conservative) 53,078
Stephen Howley (Labour) 34,351
Mike Pannet (Independent) 30,984

Barry Coppinger was re-elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland after second preference votes were counted.

Results after second round of votes:

Barry John Coppinger (Labour) 41,337
Matthew Alexander Vickers (Conservative) 25,229

Results after first round of votes:

Sultan Alam (Independent) 11,895
Barry John Coppinger (Labour) 32,733
Steve Matthews (UKIP) 17,005
Matthew Vickers (Conservative) 18,196

Julia Mulligan has been re-elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire.

The elections went into a second round of counting after none of the four candidates picked up 50% of the vote.

Julia Mulligan says her focus will be on protecting vulnerable people and trying to improve services for victims.

Vera Baird has been elected for a second term Credit: ITV News Tyne Tees

Northumbria's newly re-elected Police and Crime Commissioner is calling for clearer instructions to help people vote in future PCC elections.

There were more than 8,000 spoiled ballot papers across the force area.

PCCs are elected using the Supplementary Vote system, in cases where there are more than two candidates standing. This allows people to vote for a first and second choice.

Vera Baird says she is 'concerned' that people have have been confused by the ballot paper and intends to raise the issue at a higher level.

"I'm very concerned because clearly you spend months and weeks and days trying to persuade people to go out, that this is worth voting for and that democracy is a good thing, and then, they do their best but the instructions, they don't seem to have found clear enough.

So we'll make some representations, (to discover) if it can be made plainer next time."

– Vera Baird, Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner