Police commissioner election: Hull turnout 15.6 per cent as one in five vote in Humberside
Voter turnout for the Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner election was 19.48 per cent.
But in Hull, just 15.65 per cent of the electorate voted.
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A mobile polling station in Watton, near Driffield, yesterday. Turnout in the East Riding was higher than the Humber average.
The result is expected to be announced this afternoon.
Turn-out in the East Riding was slightly higher than the Humber average, at 23.19 per cent.
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South of the Humber, the North Lincolnshire Council area saw turnout of 20.4 per cent, and North-East Lincolnshire, which includes Grimsby, 16.18 per cent.
A low turnout had been widely expected. In comparison, this year's council election in Hull attracted a 25 per cent turnout.
Votes will be counted from 11.30am this morning at Bridlington Spa with the result expected in the late afternoon.
• Updates from the Humberside police commissioner election count
Comments
by vandutchman
Friday, November 16 2012, 5:26PM
“If only one candidate had promised to start fighting crime from the top down, the turnout would have been 80%.”
by JayOnly
Friday, November 16 2012, 4:30PM
“If you don't vote, don't moan!
Go get 'em John boy! you spend the cash on eye liner for the missus.”
by Maz666
Friday, November 16 2012, 3:32PM
“Crunchiefrog,
I agree with your comments but what I was trying to say is that the election was a fait accompli, we were not voting whether it should exist or not (that might come later when it goes wrong). I voted against who I thought would be a disaster in the post and didn't deserve it rather than who I thought would be good. That in itself being stupid to have to do.”
by crunchiefrog
Friday, November 16 2012, 2:49PM
“I did not vote because I utterly object to the creation of the elected office of police commissioners. It will politicise the police at a local level.
It's completely wrong, and I think the low turnout nationally indicates that the vast majority of people simply do not want elected police commissioners.
People who say if you don't vote then you have no right to complain have not understood that we live in a PARLIAMENTARY democracy. I always vote in Westminster elections, and I always vote in local council elections, because those are legitimate POLITICAL arenas.
Local police forces should NOT be subject to elected local police commissioners.
Most people in this country do not want them, but this Government are simply refusing to listen."”
by AstynomiaKats
Friday, November 16 2012, 2:01PM
“When I dropped my auntie off in Hutton Cranswick there was a queue at the desk, only a few people but much more than I thought.”
by Maz666
Friday, November 16 2012, 1:47PM
“Of course you don't have to vote but if you don't vote does that mean you still have a right to complain - I don't think so.
A democracy is government by all the people through elected representatives. Keywords there being all and elected!!!”
by ColonelKurtz
Friday, November 16 2012, 1:04PM
“@Ambertigerfan
Actually this is what democracy IS all about. People had a choice to vote/elect someone to offcie. They chose not to. That's democracy.
*I voted.”
by spragger
Friday, November 16 2012, 1:02PM
“As long as 'two Jags' has lost . ..”
by Sirlaffalot
Friday, November 16 2012, 12:57PM
“@censored
It is not the name of the area, it's the title of the police force which covers Nth Lincs, E/Yorks http://tinyurl.com/arfjhlw”
by Whatifitdid
Friday, November 16 2012, 12:57PM
“Judging from the turnout the votes should take about 10 minutes to count. It's a farce anyway. If the winner makes a pigs ear of the job, the powers the be can absolve all responsibility and blame the public(all 15% of them) for voting them in. Why can't they just employ an able individual with the interests of the public at heart who is qualified to do the job?
Yet another thing to vote for simply spreads more apathy and devalues democracy in general.”