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Tony Bunday, Labour and Co-operative Party; Steve James- Bailey, Hampshire Independents; Donna Jones, Conservative Candidate - More Police, Safer Streets; Richard Fintan Murphy, Liberal Democrats;
What is the role of a PCC?
Hold the police to account;
Set the police budget and police priorities which are then published in the police and crime plan;
Appoint the Chief Constable, who is responsible for making operational policing decisions;
Help to improve the local criminal justice system;
Work closely with several organisations including local councils and health services.
How are PCCs elected? They are elected using the Supplementary Voting System (SV) and a Police Area Returning Officer (PARO) is appointed to conduct the elections across each area and declare the result. The Hampshire Police Area is made up of 14 local authorities which have Local Returning Officers who are responsible for arranging and delivering the poll for the electors in their ar
Candidates standing in today’s elections have put forward their ideas for addressing Basingstoke’s housing crisis. Particularly in the wake of the pandemic, Basingstoke risks pricing people out of their hometown, as access to affordable and energy-efficient accommodation remains a top political priority. From combating loss of land supply, to pledging increased affordable housing, and from the brownfield vs farmland debate to private market prices, the main parties have set out their key housing focusses. It comes in the fourth and final week of the Gazette’s One Big Question series, where we have asked the people vying for your votes about just some of the most pressing issues for the borough.
The new ward boundaries mean no one is certain where the pieces will fall. New battle lines will be drawn tomorrow as the town’s politicians prepare to fight the first elections with new ward boundaries. As part of cost-cutting measures, the number of councillors on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council will be cut from 60 to 54. With that, comes changes in the boundaries of each ward, changing the battlegrounds for the first time since 2008. Therefore, it is hard to anticipate how exactly the results will go. But as ever in elections, certain parties will be more popular in certain areas, and by looking at historic results in the predecessor wards, we can predict which wards may be closest fought.