Grimsby-born politician Marc Jones has been named as the new Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner.
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As no candidate received more than 50 per cent of the first preference votes, candidates David Lloyd and Kerry Pollard progressed to the second round, as they had accrued the most first preference votes.
Lucinda Preston (Labour) and Daniel Simpson (Lincolnshire Independents) were eliminated from the contest at the first preference stage.
He beat UKIP’s Victoria Ayling to the position – but needed a second preference count do so when votes were totalled in Lincoln today (Friday).
Going into the second preference votes, Marc Jones holds an advantage of just shy of 11,000 over UKIP’s candidate.
Earlier this evening – after finding out he would not go through to the second round – candidate Neil Lewis posted this message on his Facebook page: “With a total of 10.16% of the vote I will not be going forward to the second round”.
However, the election results dictate that on first preference, the victor needs 50 per cent of the vote, plus one more vote.
“I worked very hard to try and win”.
Mr Keane said: “I am honoured to have been chosen by the people of Cheshire to be the next Police & Crime Commissioner”.
“We did a significant amount of work getting the message around the county and I’m glad it’s paid off”.
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The election’s turnout rate was higher than 2012’s, with 21.2% of the county’s registered voters putting their cross in the box.
