The results of the by-election for a new West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner will be announced today (Friday 22 August 2014) following yesterday’s election. There are four candidates standing for election:
- David Jamieson (Labour)
- Les Jones (Conservative)
- Ayoub Khan (Liberal Democrat)
- Keith Rowe (UK Independence Party)
Supplementary Voting
PCC elections use the Supplementary Vote system, which is different to a normal election.
Supplementary voting works as follows. Voters should mark on the ballot paper their first choice and can – if they wish, it’s not compulsory – mark on the ballot paper their second choice too.
If a candidate receives more than half of all the first choice votes, they are elected immediately.
As the results below show, in this election David Jamieson received 50.83% of the first preference votes, and was elected West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.
First round:
| Results | Bham | Coventry | Dudley | Sandwell | Solihull | Walsall | Wolv | Total |
| Jamieson (Lab) | 39,406 | 12,394 | 10,846 | 14,256 | 5,790 | 10,071 | 9,798 | 102,561 |
| Jones (Con) | 17,338 | 5,061 | 9,724 | 3,411 | 8,317 | 5,790 | 4,450 | 54,091 |
| Khan (LD) | 7,543 | 1,031 | 925 | 946 | 986 | 892 | 627 | 12,950 |
| Rowe (UKIP) | 9,162 | 3,535 | 5,569 | 3,326 | 3,419 | 4,134 | 3,042 | 32,187 |
| Turnout | 10.26% | 9.54% | 11.4% | 9.78% | 11.58% | 10.72% | 10.19% | 10.41% |
| Rejected | 1,636 | 381 | 325 | 397 | 293 | 356 | 279 | 3,667 |
