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Tory candidate Anthony Stansfeld wins PCC election

By Paul Cassell
November 16, 2012

Tory candidate Anthony Stansfeld had won the election to become the Thames Valley’s first Police and Crime Commissioner.

The West Berkshire councillor beat Labour's Tim Starkey after securing a total of 94,238 votes at Gateway Conference Centre in Aylesbury.

The election used the supplementary voting system, meaning electors were given the chance to vote for a first and then a second choice candidate.

Mr Stansfeld led in the first round after gaining 76, 011 votes but did not have an overall majority leading to a second round of voting.

Voters whose first preference had been eliminated then had their second preference counted and these were added to the first round totals to decide the winner.

The turnout across the Thames Valley was just 13.3 per cent with 226,512 people going to the polls.

Following his win, Mr Stansfeld tweeted: "Thank you so much for everyone who took the opportunity to vote for me, I feel honoured to have been elected the first PCC for Thames Valley."

	Reading	West Berks	Wokingham	South Oxon	Thames Valley
Turnout %	13.4	15.7	14	13.6	13.3
First Count
Anthony Stansfeld (Con)	3,680	8,044	6,492	5,016	76,011
Tim Starkey (Lab)	6,456	2,512	3.029	2,068	56,631
John Howson (Lib Dem)	1.186	2,053	1,591	1,588	20,511
Barry Cooper (UKIP)	1,010	1,476	1,440	1,047	19,324
Geoff Howard (Ind)	1,597	2,382	2,548	2,469	31,716
Patience Awe (Ind)	1,142	1,258	1,150	1,131	14,878
Second Count
Anthony Stansfeld (Con)	921	1,572	1,623	1,223	18,227
Tim Starkey (Lab)	1,051	1,142	938	830	13,772
Total
Anthony Stansfeld (Con)	4,601	9,616	8,115	6,239	94,238
Tim Starkey (Lab)	7,507	3,654	3,967	2,898	70,403

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So, at a stroke, one of the fundamental principles of our society - policing by consensus - is thrown away and we are all the poorer for its loss. What a monumental mistake this is.

LarryS
14/12/2012 at 13:08

Love the fact that he has already said he wants a 2.5% increase in precept next year .... which means Thames Valley Police will have to pay all the Loca Councils to run a referendum on their behalf ..... anyone want to place a bet on the turnout? great than 12%? More than the 4.96% of Thames Valley Residents that actually voted for him?!?

PS - At least he can now afford a visit to a hairdresser to sort out the hairdo - or is it a wig?

Tom Edwards, Bracknell
21/11/2012 at 15:50

'Why does he have a ginger cat asleep on his head? graywok, Woosehill'

Presumably the cat had been listening to his acceptance speech!

LarryS
20/11/2012 at 16:06

Good stuff; his views on the EU and the imported criminal type are spot on and should lead to fun times ahead eh?

Lazy Jim
20/11/2012 at 09:24

Just found the pledges he made prior to the election

If elected as the Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner Anthony pledges:

To reduce crime and drive up detection rates. To maintain the balance between urban and rural policing.

To ensure that the Police budget is targeted effectively. To protect vulnerable people. To ensure the Police act firmly and fairly, using good judgement to deal with the public politely, gaining their respect and acting with integrity.

Radical stuff isn't it ?

Surely that lots already written into the Polices remit

A Wellwisher
19/11/2012 at 14:16

Embaldened by his win, Mr Stansfeld didn't want to comb over too strong when he announced he would like us toupee an extra 2% council tax.

I bet he'll be tearing his hair out trying to get that through.

IB Fudger
19/11/2012 at 13:58

@NotJohn

Maybe he can set the ball rolling by at the least halving his exhorbitant fee.

But we all know that won't happen.

An interesting little gem from the PM today. I wonder if this is really about the public outcry against the PCC farce?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20389297

Spiddly, Reading
19/11/2012 at 12:40

and now he starts - he wants us all to pay more for the police by an increase in Council Tax

NotJohn, Reading
19/11/2012 at 11:46

I spotted 7 horrible comments about his "hair" left below. You should be ashamed of yourselves. There should be at least a couple of dozen by now.

Nowtas, West Berkshire
19/11/2012 at 11:25

Still no mention of his aims and aspirations for the role - but he is "honoured"

Says it all

A Wellwisher
19/11/2012 at 11:24

An utter waste of money in these, oh? austere money-saving times. Do the decent thing Ant, scrap all future, pointless and costly police commiosoner elections in the Thames Valley, hand the job over to the police, and stand down. I didnt vote; and before any idiot says "Then you have no place to complain" or "Everyone should vote in all elections" - that stinks of communism and remember, it's our right not to vote just as much as it is our right to vote. OK, I await your replies, let the fun begin!

Buck, Reading
18/11/2012 at 21:34

I was against this stupid waste of money from the start .... we have a police authority that for many years has done a great job. We now have this chap [i am assuming its a wig] who look so uncomfortable when he came to Bracknell Town Centre [obviously not the same genteel type that inhabits West Berkshire] if he been an Independent it would have been slightly easier to swallow. He, sadly, will make no difference to anything, and as I sit here my daughter is watching X-Factor - how great must Stansfeld feel knowing that more people vote for Xfactor than voted for him, and more people in Bracknell voted for Union J than TURNED OUT to vote!

And lets not forget that the "election" cost £14 PER VOTE CAST. and only 4.5% of the population voted for him .. meaning that 95% voted for someone else ... or didnt bother voting. Lets give the Conservative coalition Government the boot!

Tom Edwards, Bracknell
18/11/2012 at 20:11

Voice of Treason: On a point of order re: Consultants. £80k is low and doesn't take into acct benficalial loans, private work, holiday allowances, freebies, trials, easily contrived overtime, pensions. Ever wondered why the paint peels in a hospital whilst the parking bays are full of Audis and Beamers. When the NHS was privatised and someone asked "how did you keep the doctors silent?" the Answer was "because I stuffed their mouths with money". Agree about the PCC candidates but don't hold up Consultants simply because you're afraid on day you'll need one to give you a bypass . They are not the saints they are sometimes made out to be. Egotistical, cynical and opportunistic - just like most people when it comes down to it.

Interested Party, Reading
18/11/2012 at 12:07

*Le sigh* Oh S**t, there goes West Berkshire... I voted for farm house pizza, because I recieved 3 leaflets during the period of time the candidates had to pitch their goals to us all... Farmhouse cost me less and gave me more. Fact.

blunt as a brick, forest park
18/11/2012 at 01:48

So. It's over, for now.

What this is all about, is the Governmint installing a firewall between the Home Office and the Police, so that when, next year, crime rates start going up again (after a decade or so of then going down) they can say "Oooh it's not our fault, talk to your PCC!" While imposing 10 - 20 - 30% cuts across the board.

Comrades, we are being stitched up, again.

So why did only 13% vote?

Because the candidates (with a 5 grand deposit to find) couldn't afford to send any information out - did you get any?

So why are we surprised that we had no info to base our vote on?