Bedfordshire's new PCC Olly Martins at the voting count in LutonOlly Martins is Bedfordshire’s first ever Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) after winning last night’s election.
Mr Martins beat Jas Parmar, the Conservative representative, to land the role which will see him in charge of many important areas Bedfordshire Police’s policing.
Earlier today the other candidates, Linda Jack (Liberal Democrats), Kevin Carroll (British Freedom Party) and Mezanur Rashid (Independent), dropped out after the first round of voting.
However, since neither Mr Parmar or Mr Martins received more than 50 per cent of the votes the second preference votes had to be counted to determine the winner.
In the first round of voting Mr Parmar received 26,226 votes whilst Mr Martins led the way with 27,947.
The results for the other candidates were: Linda Jack (11,205); Kevin Carroll (8,675) and Mezanur Rashid (8,076).
Below is a breakdown of the votes received by each candidates from the three different boroughs after the first round of voting.
Luton:
Olly Martins - 12,398
Mezanur Rashid - 5,297
Jas Parmar - 4,476
Kevin Carroll - 3,173
Linda Jack - 2,394
Central Bedfordshire:
Jas Parmar - 13,198
Olly Martins - 8,407
Linda Jack - 4,531
Kevin Caroll - 3,856
Mezanur Rashid - 1,496
Bedford Borough:
Jas Parmar - 8,552
Olly Martins - 7,142
Linda Jack - 4,280
Kevin Carroll - 1,646
Mezanur Rashid - 1,285
