Britain's best kept polling secret: Did you know there were PCC elections?

摘要

Super Thursday saw a swathe of elections across the UK on May 6, from the Scottish Parliament, to the Welsh Assembly, elected mayors and many local councils too. Most of these had been put off from 2020, as local democracy became another victim of the pandemic. There was much less attention paid to the police and crime commissioner elections held on the same day. Waiting another year, giving PCCs a five-year term instead of the normal four-year tenure, 39 PCC positions were up for grabs across England and Wales. There are 43 PCCs but three of them are also elected mayors: London, Manchester and West Yorkshire. There is also the anomaly of the City of London, but that is another story. Remember of course that of the 39 PCCs, four of them already have responsibility for fire, making them police, fire and crime commissioners. The PFCCs for Essex and Northamptonshire both stood for re-election while the PFCCs for North Yorkshire and Staffordshire did not.