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The PCC election will have to be re-run after Tory Party HQ disbarred Mr Seed because of a 30-year-old drink drive conviction Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner candidate, Jonathon Seed THE election for the Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner will have to be re-run after the favourite Jonathon Seed won the election by a landslide 41,929 votes. Mr Seed, the Conservative candidate, polled a total of 100,003 first and second preference votes to win the election. He announced that he would have to withdraw after being disbarred by the Tory Party HQ in London because...
Webster (LD) 35013 Mr Seed did not attend the count. Wiltshire Council said that it would now consider the next steps to take after taking “appropriate legal advice”. Under the 2011 law setting up the police and crime commissioner election process, a successful candidate has up to two months to sign the “declaration” to take up the role. If that declaration is not signed, the post becomes vacant and another election must be run. The post can also be declared vacant by order of the High Court. Mike Rees, who ran for the role as an independent, said there “needs to be a co...
• Liz Webster (Liberal Democrats): 35013 The total number of valid first and second preference votes cast for the remaining candidates is: • Jonathon Seed (Conservative): 100,003 • Liz Webster (Liberal Democrats): 58,074 Terence Herbert, Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner Area Returning Officer, said: “The election count for the Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner has been completed today at Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre in Salisbury, and Jonathon Seed, the Conservative Party candidate, has been declared as the winner. “The resu...
BBC News Published image copyrightTwitter image captionJonathon Seed was convicted of drink-driving in 1993 which disqualifies him from becoming a police and crime commissioner A new police and crime commissioner (PCC) election will cost more than £1m and will be funded by central government, Wiltshire Council has said. Conservative candidate Jonathon Seed gained the most votes in the Wiltshire PCC on Monday, but due to a historical conviction is ineligible to serve. Returning officer Terence Herbert is now seeking legal advice and will set out the process for a fresh election. The BBC has a...