2021 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections

Elections of police and crime commissioners in England and Wales will take place during 2021, on the same day as the Welsh Parliament elections and the local elections in England.[1] This will be the third time police and crime commissioner elections had been held. The election was originally due to take place in May 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

2021 Police and crime commissioner elections

6 May 2021

40 police and crime commissioners in England and Wales


Leader	Boris Johnson	Keir Starmer	Adam Price
Party	Conservative	Labour	Plaid Cymru
Leader since	23 July 2019	4 April 2020	28 September 2018
Last election	20 seats, 29.3%	15 seats, 34.3%	2 seats, 2.6%
Current seats	20	14	2

Background

Police and crime commissioners (PCCs) are elected representatives with responsibility for policing in each police area in England and Wales. Each police area—with the exception of Greater London and Greater Manchester, where the directly elected mayor is the policing authority instead—elects a commissioner every four years.

This is the third set of police and crime commissioner elections to be held, following the creation of the role by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 which led to the holding of the first elections in November 2012.

The Policing and Crime Act 2017 amended the above Act and enabled PCCs to take on governance of the local fire and rescue service as the Fire Authority. This has been implemented by the election of Police Fire and Crime commissioners in the following areas:[3]

Staffordshire was legislated for on 1 August 2018.[4]
Essex was legislated for on 1 October 2018.[5]
Northamptonshire was legislated for on 15 November 2018.[6]
North Yorkshire was legislated for on 1 January 2019.[7]

Postponement to 2021

Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the elections due to be held in May 2020 were delayed until May 2021; this applied to the PCC elections as well as those for local authorities and elected mayors.[2] The postponement was implemented by the Coronavirus Act 2020 which was enacted on 25 March 2020.[8]

The act stipulates that the postponement is to be ignored in determining the years in which subsequent elections are to be held,[9] thus the commissioners elected in 2021 will be in office for three years, not the usual four.

Police and crime commissioners not standing for re-election

Barry Coppinger, Labour Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012.[10]
Ray Bisby, acting Conservative Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2019.[11]
Matthew Ellis, Conservative Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012[12]
Ron Hogg, Labour Durham Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012, died in office.[13]
Kathryn Holloway, Conservative Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2016.[14]
David Jamieson, Labour West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner since 2014.[12]
Julia Mulligan, Conservative North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012.
Angus Macpherson, Conservative Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012.[15]
Sue Mountstevens, Independent Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012.[16]
Martyn Underhill, Independent Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner since 2012.[17][18]
Arfon Jones, Plaid Cymru North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner since 2016.[19]

Candidates

Incumbent police and crime commissioners are marked with an asterisk (*).

Avon and Somerset Constabulary

2021 Avon and Somerset police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kerry Barker
	Conservative	Mark Shelford
	Independent	John Smith

Bedfordshire Police

2021 Bedfordshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Festus Akinbusoye
	Labour
	Liberal Democrats

Cambridgeshire Police

2021 Cambridgeshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nicky Massey
	Liberal Democrats	Rupert Moss-Eccardt
	Conservative	Darryl Preston

Cheshire Constabulary

2021 Cheshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Dwyer
	Labour	David Keane*

Cleveland Police

2021 Cleveland police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Steve Turner
	Labour	Paul Williams

Cumbria Constabulary

[1][20] (This above article refers to Cheshire NOT Cumbria Constabulary.

2021 Cumbria police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter McCall
	Labour	Barbara Cannon

Derbyshire Constabulary

2021 Derbyshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Angelique Foster
	Liberal Democrats	Kate Smith

Devon and Cornwall Police

2021 Devon and Cornwall police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Blake
	Labour	Gareth Derrick
	Conservative	Alison Hernandez*

Dorset Police

2021 Dorset police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick Canavan
	Independent	Dan Hardy
	Conservative	David Sidwick

Durham Constabulary

2021 Durham police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Joy Allen

Dyfed-Powys Police

2021 Dyfed-Powys police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jon Burns
	Plaid Cymru	Dafydd Llywelyn*

Essex Constabulary

2021 Essex police, fire and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roger Hirst*
	Labour	Chris Vince
	Liberal Democrats	Callum Robertson

Gloucestershire Constabulary

2021 Gloucestershire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Chris Nelson
	Independent	Martin Surl*
	Labour	Chas Townley

Gwent Police

2021 Gwent police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff Cuthbert*
	Conservative	Hannah Jarvis

Hampshire Constabulary

2021 Hampshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Donna Jones
	Labour	Tony Bunday
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Murphy

Hertfordshire Constabulary

2021 Hertfordshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sam North
	Labour	Philip Ross

Humberside Police

2021 Humberside police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Keith Hunter*
	Conservative	Craig Ulliot

Kent Police

2021 Kent police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Scott*
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Colley
	Labour Co-op	Lola Oyewusi

Lancashire Constabulary

2021 Lancashire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew Snowden

Leicestershire Police

2021 Leicestershire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Rupert Matthews
	Labour	Ross Willmott

Lincolnshire Police

2021 Lincolnshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Marc Jones

Merseyside Police

2021 Merseyside police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Kris Brown
	Labour	Emily Spurrell
	Independent	Josie Mullen

Norfolk Constabulary

2021 Norfolk police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Giles Orpen-Smellie

Northamptonshire Police

2021 Northamptonshire police, fire, and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Mold*

Northumbria Police

2021 Northumbria police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%

North Wales Police

2021 North Wales police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andy Dunbobbin
	Plaid Cymru	Ann Griffith

North Yorkshire Police

2021 North Yorkshire police, fire and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip Allott
	Independent	Keith Tordoff

Nottinghamshire Police

2021 Nottinghamshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%

South Wales Police

2021 South Wales police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Michael Alfred Baker
	Labour Co-op	Alun Michael*
	Plaid Cymru	Nadine Marshall
	Conservative	Carolyn Webster

South Yorkshire Police

2021 South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%

Staffordshire Police

2021 Staffordshire police, fire and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Benedict Adams
	Labour	Tony Kearon

Suffolk Constabulary

2021 Suffolk police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%

Surrey Police

2021 Surrey police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	TBA
	Independent	David Munro*
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Kennedy

David Munro was elected in 2016 as the Conservative candidate.

Sussex Police

2021 Sussex police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Katy Bourne*

Thames Valley Police

2021 Thames Valley police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Matthew Barber
	Labour	Laetisia Catherine Carter
	Independent	Andrew Flynn
	Liberal Democrats	John Howson

Warwickshire Police

2021 Warwickshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ben Twomey

West Mercia Police

2021 West Mercia police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John-Paul Campion*
	Labour	Kuldip Sahota

West Midlands Police

2021 West Midlands police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Foster
	Independent	Julie Hambleton
	Liberal Democrats	Jon Hunt
	Conservative	Jay Singh-Sohal

West Yorkshire Police

2021 West Yorkshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Burns-Williamson*
	Conservative	Matthew Robinson

Wiltshire Police

2021 Wiltshire police and crime commissioner election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Junab Ali
	Independent	Mike Rees
	Conservative	Jonathon Seed

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