On the Island, she won 19,400 votes alone, according to the results of the count. More than 40,000 Islanders voted in the election on May 6, which had been delayed by a year due to Covid-19. Nearly 39,000 votes were counted, after verification. Voters’ second votes were also taken into consideration, and it was between Conservative Donna Jones and Labour Tony Bunday for the post. Independent Steve James-Bailey and Lib Dem Richard Murphy were eliminated from the election. Mrs Jones beat Labour candidate Tony Bunday by 50,326 votes to 43,919. During the second count, 3,199 Islanders voted for Donna Jones as their second preference. 2,789 voted for Mr Bunday.
The former Portsmouth City Council leader won the election race with 312,993 votes. Labour candidate Tony Bunday came second with 145,751 votes. It comes as Liberal Democrat Richard Murphy and independent Steve James-Bailey were eliminated after first preferences were counted. Ms Jones pledged to do a complete overhaul of the 101 and 999 services and to deliver 600 police officers across the county. She also committed to removing bureaucracy allowing officers to be on patrol. She said: “This is going to be paid for by the general eletions pledge by the Conservative Party from 2019 to recruit 20,000 police officers nationally. In Hampshire we estimate that it’s going to be about 450 and additional officers will be given money from the Safer Streets Fund and the Specialist Violence Reduction Unit and I anticipate that funding continuing so we should end up with around 600 additional police officers.”
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