Labour’s Paddy Tipping has been re-elected as Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner after winning on a second preference vote count.
Mr Tipping achieved 48 per cent of first stage preference votes – but needed 50 per cent to win outright.
Conservative Tony Harper took him to a second stage of counting – where voters’ second choices are taken into account.
After the second stage count, votes for Mr Tipping totalled 89,749 while Mr Harper had 56,105.
During the first stage of counting Mr Tipping polled 80,9626, Mr Harper 48,155, UKIP’ s Fran Loi 20,030, independent Tony Bates 14,579 and independent Jason Zadrozny 7,165.
Turnout for the election was up – 21.8 percent of voters in the city and county took part in Thursday’s ballot.
This is compared with the 2012 turnout of 16.4 percent in Nottinghamshire during the county’s first-ever commissioner election.
Around the county turnout within different council boundary areas varied, with the highest in Rushcliffe at 27.47 per cent, and the lowest in Mansfield at 18.02 per cent.
Picture: The counting of votes under way at Nottingham Tennis Centre
Elected every four years, commissioners were created by the Government to save money and provide a more obvious public face when it comes to cutting and controlling crime in cities and counties across the country.
Elections are often tied together – such as general and local council polls – but Nottinghamshire’s poll is was standalone election.
Commissioner elections were held across the country with standalone PCC elections also happening in Bedfordshire, Cleveland, Durham, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
