Police and Crime Commissioner by-election results

The following persons have been nominated for the election of a Police and Crime Commissioner on Thursday 21st August 2014 for the West Midlands Police Area:

• David Charles Jamieson - Labour Party
• Les Jones - Conservative Party
• Ayoub Khan - Liberal Democrats
• Keith Alexander Rowe - UK Independence Party (UKIP)

More information on the candidates can be found here: http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/candidates/area/west-midlands

Polling stations will be open from 7am to 10pm on the day and results will appear in the tables below.

About police and crime commissioners http://www.choosemypcc.org.uk/about-pccs/

Voting system

• PCC elections use the Supplementary Vote system, which is different to a normal election. The ballot paper will look different to a normal election.
• Supplementary voting works as follows. Voters can - if they wish, it’s not compulsory - mark on the ballot paper their first and second choices.
• If a candidate receives more than half of all the first choice votes, they are elected immediately.
• If this does not happen, the two candidates with the most first choice votes go through to a second round. All other candidates are eliminated, but their second choice votes for either of the top two candidates are added to the totals for those two candidates from the first round.
• The candidate with the highest combined total of first and second choice votes will be elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands.

***Second stage not needed as David Charles Jamieson (Labour) polled more than 50 per cent of the votes cast (50.83 per cent) - hereby becoming the new West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner***

Last Time

Results from the first PCC election in November 2012