Conservative doesn't quite make it in round one
Alison Hernandez fell short of the votes she needs to take a second term as police and crime commissioner in the first round - meaning second preference votes have to be totted up.
The Conservative topped the poll by a massive margin, but didn't get an overall majority. In the first round, the votes cast were:
Alison Hernandez (Conservative): 247,173
Gareth Derrick (Labour): 99,894
Brian Blake (Liberal Democrat): 88,318
Stuart Jackson (Green): 59,242
With a tantalising 49.97 per cent of the poll, Ms Hernandez is about 142 votes short of the number she needed so everyone at the Riverside Leisure Centre, who've been thumbing ballot papers since 9.30am could pack in and head home for supper.
Because no one reach 50 per cent, the top two candidates go through to a second stage in which the second preferences of those who made the Lib Dem or Green candidate their first choice are reallocated to the Conservative or Labour Party.
Ms Hernandez needed 247,314 votes to be elected without the pain of that second count.
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