Katy Bourne has been re-elected as the Conservative police and crime commissioner for Sussex, winning a fourth term with a 23,000-vote majority.
Labour won the most votes in Brighton and Hove in the Sussex PCC election, it was announced this afternoon (Sunday 5 May).
Paul Richards picked up 22,053 votes for Labour in Brighton and Hove and 99,502 across Sussex as a whole on a turnout of 24.49 per cent.
It gave the main challenger almost half the votes in Brighton and Hove.
The votes cast were
Katy Bourne (Conservative) 122,495 elected
Paul Richards (Labour and Co-operative) 99,502
Jamie Bennett (Liberal Democrat) 48,923
Jonathan Kent (Green) 43,105
In 2021, Katy Bourne won 244,810 votes (including 30,287 second preferences) and Paul Richards 128,259 (including 43,523 second preferences).
Mrs Bourne has won all three times, having served an extra year when the scheduled election was postponed due to covid in 2020.
Oh well…never mind.
A change would have been nice, I don’t have much faith in her.
On the gravy train for another 4 years !
I vote as I always vote but not Tory as I never will but this position was created by Cameron and is expensive and unnecessary. What does this woman do? Gets a huge salary but sadly there have been cuts in police officers. It doesn’t make sense, just whim from Cameron to curry favour!
Therein lies the wisdom of tactical voting! I’m not sure for her, it’s a reassuring, resounding win, as her vote has collapsed. And it sort of reaffirmed why I was tempted to not vote. Lumping B & H in with places like Eastbourne, Chichester & Mid Sussex, sort of makes a Brighton vote irrelevant (even though it’s the biggest & most progressive settlement in both countries 🤔) The myth that the conservatives are ‘tough on crime’ isn’t exactly bourne out, when you look at police cuts since 2010. And let’s not even start on the state of the justice & prison system in general; it’s a shambles 😡
Well, I live in Eastbourne and voted Labour on the basis that was a vote across East and West Sussex. Come the General Election however, I will have no option but to vote tactically for the LibDems.
Police number are rising again and PCSOs too!
They have barely crept past the levels in 2010 when the Tories and Lib Dem’s cut the budget for them
If this had been run using the old (sensible) system, Paul Richards would have one fairly easily… No one voting green and not many lib Dems would give their second vote to a Tory
That’s a about a 10 1/w% swing to Labour from the Tories
My wish is that working people/ working class voters/ middle class (people who also ‘have’ to work)/ ‘greens’ rightly concerned with the environment, would all finally realise that the Labour Party represent their best chance of opposition to the conservatives. Look what happened since the lib dems went In with them: Brexit, more selling off, more greenwash..
Katy Bourne has presided over a chronic decline in Community Policing. Also, she has not replied to a single communication sent to her by me, my neighbours or even our local councillors! Noone in the post that long can hope to hold the Chief Constable to account – it should be a two-term post at most and it should never have been a political post.
What is the point if the PCC? Waste of money.
Especially as none of them bothered to issue any information to the electorate round here. No idea if they did elsewhere in the county
The Police and Crime Commissioner is responsible for overseeing the police force in a specific area.
Which county councils used to do as part of their remit.
No. There were Police Authorities like Fire Authorities.
Which were committees of county councils (sometimes a joing committee of 2 councils) with a specific set of legal powers.
The Tory candidate got 30% of the vote on a 25% turnout. What kind of a mandate is that?
90% of the voters in Sussex failed to support her.
In my ideal word, voting would be mandatory, even if it’s a RON.
We need an “Administrative Government” option on all elections so those who feel there are no options that represent them, can vote for a no aligned administrative option. This will cause parties to buck up their ideas, as the AG would have built in majority.
If it had not been a first-past-the-post set-up this time, then it is likely that Labour would have won it.
This Conservative politician has barely any real mandate. Turnout is so small and the margin much eroded, with an overwhelming rejection in the largest conurbation. In practice about 85 percent of the electorate have no voice on Sussex policing. Far better to have the local authorities have representatives collectively feeding back what communities are experiencing and need. I would like to see this US idea of elected police rolled back to this way of doing things. .Waste of money.
Well done Libs and Greens-a Tory PCC
But how were voters to know that? It is a secret ballot. But this result might influence them next time – unless a new government does away with this bogus job.
Even a former Green councillor such as yourself could have worked the numbers and understand the problem .but the I guess you supported the i360 in Brighton and can’t count.
How were voters to know that? We look at previous years’ results and make an educated decision from that, you dolt. Bloody liberals.
Your party supports FPTP. Well done to you.
She got 39% of a 24.49% turnout which is about 9.5% of the electorate . It cost £1 million to have this election . and she spends £2 million/year. No-one knows what she does .What’s the point ?
Someone who oversees the police, so, can she stop their pension payouts after they are tossed out for criminal deeds whlst serving as police officers ??? Or does crime really pay.
And the job is so easy ,she comes back again and again
The commissioner result suggests that there could be something in the national election bringing a hung parliament. That would enable pressure for a pr system.
Think these statistics will be more relevant when Labour gain power with a 30% turnout. People are fed up with the Tories it’s true, but they aren’t going to vote Labour in large numbers.(Brighton excepted perhaps).Also take issue with the term ‘progressive’ to describe a denial of free speech, (and I’m not elaborating on that, for obvious reasons).!!