THE Conservative candidate for police and crime commissioner (PCC) took the most votes in the Daventry district.
Results announced at 1.40pm in Kettering show Adam Simmonds (Con) got 3,757 votes, compared to John Norrie (Ind) with 2,698, Jim MacArthur for UKIP with 1,753, and Paul Varnsverry (Lib Dem) with 644 votes.
Lee Barron who appeared on ballots as the Labour candidate received 1,165 votes, despite him admitting well before election day he could not become the commission due to a previous conviction.
Daventry’s results will be combined with those from across the county to elect Northamptonshire’s first ever police and crime commissioner, who will have the power to set policing priorities, hire and fire the chief constable and the force’s budget.
Figures released by Daventry District Council show that the overall turn-out for the PCC election was just 16.9 per cent, with 10,288 votes cast.
However, a breakdown shows just 5,417 votes were cast at polling stations on the day with the rest being postal votes.