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Andy Dunbobbin the new PCC for North Wales is sworn in after his Pic: Jez Hemming (clear for use by all partners) Labour’s Andy Dunbobbin has taken the vacant Police and Crime Commissioner role in North Wales after a nail-biting run-off. He won with 98,034 overall votes defeating Conservative rival Pat by 7,885 votes after second preference ballots were added in. Speaking in Connah’s Quay, where the results were announced, he said: “I take this role seriously. “I understand I will be measured against my manifesto pledges by the people of North Wales. “I’m very much looking forward to starting this work from now.”
Labour s Andy Dunbobbin elected as new North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner
Welsh Labour’s Dunbobbin won with a total of 98,034 votes
17:12, 9 MAY 2021
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Labour s Andy Dunbobbin has taken the vacant Police and Crime Commissioner role in North Wales after a nail-biting run-off.
Updated: Sun 9th May
North Wales will have a new Police and Crime Commissioner today.
Updates below…
Some detail on how close the first vote was – where will the second preferences go? Provisional results from first round.
Mark Young – Independent: 15,907
Andy Dunbobbin – Labour: 69,455
Lisa Wilkins – Lib Dem: 10,149
Pat Astbury – Conservative: 75,476
Ann Griffith – Plaid: 67,672
Turnout: 46.86% up on last time out (41.6%)#NorthWalesPCC2021 Conwy and Denbighshire Local Democracy Reporter (@LDRJezHemming) May 9, 2021
Counts now underway on the second preferences!
CONFIRMED – PCC election is going to second preference.
The process is explained as
“…at the second count, where required, the ballot papers on which a first preference vote was given to those candidates who did not remain in the contest equals: the total number of ballot papers containing a valid second preference vote for a continuing candidate, plus the total number of ballot papers
Welsh polling station. A printing error has been blamed on a North Wales regional candidate being omitted from tens of thousands of ballot papers across Gwynedd and Anglesey. The relevant returning officers have confirmed that the advice of the Electoral Commission was sought as a result of the error which saw Michelle Brown’s name failing to appear on the ballot papers of voters living in the Ynys Môn and Arfon constituencies. Ms Brown, who is based in Staffordshire, was elected as one of the four members representing the North Wales electoral region as a UKIP AM in 2016. She hit the headlines in 2017 after she was accused of making a racist comment about a then senior Labour politician and was banned from the Senedd for a week.