PCC Election 2016

I, Will Godfrey, being the Police Returning Officer for the Gwent Police Area do hereby declare that the total first preference votes cast for each candidate at the election was:  

BROWN, Christine Louise

50,985

CUTHBERT, Jeffery Hambley

76,893

JONES, Darren

37,916

I further declare that the total number of rejected votes at the end of the first count was: 

Want of an official mark

0

Voting for more than one candidate in the first preference vote

2472

Writing or mark by which the voter could be identified

62

Unmarked as to the first preference vote

7015

Void for uncertainty

1838

I further declare that the total number of second preference votes for each candidate remaining in the contest after the count of the first preference votes was:

BROWN, Christine Louise

8946

CUTHBERT, Jeffery Hambley

19137

And that the number of ballot papers rejected at the count of second preference votes was:

Voting for too many candidates

408

Unmarked

6753

Void for uncertainty

2672

I therefore declare Jeffery Hambley Cuthbert duly elected as the Police and Crime Commissioner for the Gwent Police Area