Cambridgeshire: Police Election Results
16 November 2012, 14:45 | Updated: 16 November 2012, 18:07
Here are the results from the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner election count.
Final results after second preference count:
Elected: Sir Graham Bright (Conservative) 31,640 votes
Ed Murphy (Labour) 25,114
Results after first count:
Sir Graham Bright (Conservative) 23,731
Ed Murphy (Labour) 17,576
Paul Bullen (UKIP) 14,504
Ansar Ali (Independent) 12,706
Rupert Moss-Eccardt (Liberal Democrats) 7,530
Stephen Goldspink (English Democrats) 7,219
Farooq Mohammed (Independent) 5,337
As no candiate had a majority of over 50% of the total vote, the top two candidates went forward to a second round of voting.
Voters second preferences were taken from ballot papers which did not list either of the top two candidates as a first preference.
These second preference votes were then added to the top two candidates first preference votes, with the winner being the candidate with the resulting highest number of first and second preference votes added together.
District by district breakdown of first preference results:
South Cambridgeshire results.
Ansar Ali (Independent) 2,489
Sir Graham Bright (Conservative) 5,196
Paul Bullen (UKIP) 2,686
Stephen Goldspink (English Democrats) 1,904
Farooq Mohammed (Independent) 645
Rupert Moss-Eccardt (Liberal Democrats) 1,940
Ed Murphy (Labour) 2,873
Rejected ballot papers 711.
Huntingdonshire results.
Ansar Ali (Independent) 2,870
Sir Graham Bright (Conservative) 5,669
Paul Bullen (UKIP) 4,313
Stephen Goldspink (English Democrats) 1,357
Farooq Mohammed (Independent) 714
Rupert Moss-Eccardt (Liberal Democrats) 1,132
Ed Murphy (Labour) 2,365
Rejected ballot papers 565
East Cambridgeshire results.
Ansar Ali (Independent) 1,055
Sir Graham Bright (Conservative) 2,704
Paul Bullen (UKIP) 1,440
Stephen Goldspink (English Democrats) 600
Farooq Mohammed (Independent) 280
Rupert Moss-Eccardt (Liberal Democrats) 886
Ed Murphy (Labour) 1,140
Rejected ballot papers 258.
Peterborough results.
Ansar Ali (Independent) 3,759
Sir Graham Bright (Conservative) 4,911
Paul Bullen (UKIP) 2,868
Stephen Goldspink (English Democrats) 2,336
Farooq Mohammed (Independent) 2,896
Rupert Moss-Eccardt (Liberal Democrats) 755
Ed Murphy (Labour) 5,282
Rejected ballot papers 548.
Fenland results:
Ansar Ali (Independent) 800
Sir Graham Bright (Conservative) 2,975
Paul Bullen (UKIP) 2,163
Stephen Goldspink (English Democrats) 1,236
Farooq Mohammed (Independent) 310
Rupert Moss-Eccardt (Liberal Democrats) 402
Ed Murphy (Labour) 1,656
Rejected ballot papers 196.
Cambridge results.
Ansar Ali (Independent) 1,733
Sir Graham Bright (Conservative) 2,276
Paul Bullen (UKIP) 1,093
Stephen Goldspink (English Democrats) 586
Farooq Mohammed (Independent) 492
Rupert Moss-Eccardt (Liberal Democrats) 2,415
Ed Murphy (Labour) 4,260
Rejected ballot papers 614