Results of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections for Cumbria held on 6 May 2021

The election for the Cumbria Police and Crime Commissioner were held on 6 May 2021, with the count carried out on 10 May 2021.

How do PCC elections work?

Elections for PCCs take place every four years.

Police and Crime Commissioner elections use the Supplementary Vote (SV) system.

The ballot paper will list the PCC candidates, with two columns for marking a voter's first choice and second choice.

If a candidate receives more than 50 per cent of the first preference votes then they are elected.

If no candidate reaches the 50 per cent threshold, the two candidates with the highest number of votes remain. This eliminates the other candidates. The second preference of the eliminated candidates are counted. Any made for the two remaining candidates are transferred. The candidate with the most votes at the end of this process is elected.

Results of the Police and Crime Commissioner election

The results of the 2021 election are outlined below. See the results from 2016.

Turnout and verification numbers

Ballot paper information
Voting area	Number of ballot papers in polling station ballot box	Number of postal ballot papers in postal ballot boxes	Total in all boxes (verification number)	Electorate	Turnout, %
Allerdale	10,789	10,350	21,139	76,323	27.70%
Barrow	6,774	2,818	9,562	52,056	18.43%
Carlisle	13,281	9,324	22,605	83,140	27.19%
Copeland	5,642	6,260	11,902	52,972	22.47%
Eden	6,928	4,040	10,968	42,863	25.59%
South Lakeland	17,917	13,701	31,618	83,036	38.08%
All voting areas	61,331	46,493	107,824	390,390	27.62%

First round results

Result
Name	Party/Description	Votes
Loraine Birchall	Liberal Democrats	21,506
Barbara Ann Cannon	Labour and Co-operative Party	27,687
Peter Joseph McCall	Conservative Party	56,753

As Peter McCall received 53.57% of the vote in the first round, he was duly elected as Police and Crime Commissioner for the Cumbria Police Area.

Ballot Paper information
Reason for rejected ballot	Number
Ballot papers were rejected because they did not bear the official mark	0
Unmarked as to a first preference vote	613
Ballot papers were rejected because there was more than one first preference vote given	591
Ballot papers were rejected because there was something written or marked on the ballot paper by which the voter could be identified	5
Ballot papers were rejected because they were unmarked or void for uncertainty	665

First round results by local area

Allerdale Borough Council

Votes for each candidate
Name	Party/description	Votes
Loraine Birchall	Liberal Democrats	2,050
Barbara Cannon	Labour and Co-operative Party	6,942
Peter Joseph McCall	Conservative Party	11,717
	Total rejected papers	426

Barrow Borough Council

Votes for each candidate
Name	Party/description	Votes
Loraine Birchall	Liberal Democrats	771
Barbara Cannon	Labour and Co-operative Party	3,672
Peter Joseph McCall	Conservative Party	4,961
	Total rejected papers	188

Carlisle City Council

Votes for each candidate
Name	Party/description	Votes
Loraine Birchall	Liberal Democrats	2,244
Barbara Cannon	Labour and Co-operative Party	6,541
Peter Joseph McCall	Conservative Party	13,468
	Total rejected papers	352

Copeland Borough Council

Votes for each candidate
Name	Party/description	Votes
Loraine Birchall	Liberal Democrats	780
Barbara Cannon	Labour and Co-operative Party	4,354
Peter Joseph McCall	Conservative Party	6,613
	Total rejected papers	155

Eden District Council

Votes for each candidate
Name	Party/description	Votes
Loraine Birchall	Liberal Democrats	1,807
Barbara Cannon	Labour and Co-operative Party	2,116
Peter Joseph McCall	Conservative Party	6,871
	Total rejected papers	174

South Lakeland District Council

Votes for each candidate
Name	Party/description	Votes
Loraine Birchall	Liberal Democrats	13,854
Barbara Cannon	Labour and Co-operative Party	4,062
Peter Joseph McCall	Conservative Party	13,123
	Total rejected papers	579

Election documents

Cumbria Police and Crime Commissioner election official declaration

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