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Updated: Sun 9th May North Wales will have a new Police and Crime Commissioner today. Updates below… Some detail on how close the first vote was – where will the second preferences go? *Provisional results from first round. Mark Young – Independent: 15,907 Andy Dunbobbin – Labour: 69,455 Lisa Wilkins – Lib Dem: 10,149 Pat Astbury – Conservative: 75,476 Ann Griffith – Plaid: 67,672 Turnout: 46.86% up on last time out (41.6%)#NorthWalesPCC2021 — Conwy and Denbighshire Local Democracy Reporter (@LDRJezHemming) May 9, 2021 Counts now underway on the second preferences! CONFIRMED...

Welsh polling station. A printing error has been blamed on a North Wales regional candidate being omitted from tens of thousands of ballot papers across Gwynedd and Anglesey. The relevant returning officers have confirmed that the advice of the Electoral Commission was sought as a result of the error which saw Michelle Brown’s name failing to appear on the ballot papers of voters living in the Ynys Môn and Arfon constituencies. Ms Brown, who is based in Staffordshire, was elected as one of the four members representing the North Wales electoral region as a UKIP AM in 2016. She hit...

BBC News Published Counting of votes to elect 60 politicians to sit in the Welsh Parliament has started. Long queues were seen outside polling stations as the polls officially closed at 22:00 BST on Thursday. With counting delayed until Friday due to the coronavirus pandemic most results are expected to be declared in the afternoon and early evening. Voting also took place for four police and crime commissioners - those ballots will be counted on Sunday. As the polls closed for voting across Wales, some people posted photos on social media showing long queues, with reports of some queuing for...

The Senedd, Cardiff DUE to a local printing error, the Senedd North Wales Regional Ballot Papers for the constituencies in Gwynedd and Ynys Môn do not include the final listed candidate - Michelle Brown, Independent. Voters are being advised of this error as they attend their local polling stations, and are still being given the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice from the full list of nominated parties and candidates. A joint statement, by the Regional Returning Officer for North Wales (Colin Everett), Returning Officer for Gwynedd (Dilwyn Williams) and Returning Off...

Wales election candidate missed-off ballot after 'printing error' Published image captionMichelle Brown sat as a UKIP MS in the last Welsh Parliament until she resigned in 2019 to sit as an independent An independent Welsh Parliament election candidate whose name was left off some ballot papers has called the error "an affront to democracy". Some voting papers for the regional north Wales seat did not include a box for independent Michelle Brown. Returning officers said it was a "printing error" and said voters had been given the chance to vote for the full list at polling stations. Ms Brown ...