Tag Archives: supplementary vote

Elected Police Commissioners: how the elections would work

The publication this week of the Police Reform And Social Responsibility Bill provided, amongst other matters, details of how the planned elections for Police Commissioners (or, strictly speaking, Police and Crime Commissioners) would be conducted.

The overall plan is to treat them like local elections, with the same electorate and the same polling day in May. However, the Bill also applies the ‘standard’ election system for existing directly elected executive posts to Police Commissioners, namely the supplementary vote.

This is likely to be controversial, both because the supplementary vote is very unpopular with many Liberal Democrats and also because the …

Posted in Election law and News | Also tagged , , and | 13 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • David Vigar
    Good thinking. And close to the fundamental beliefs of Paddy Ashdown, with whom I worked in the 1990s. His thinking was that if every citizen could fulfil their...
  • Peter Martin
    It's really nothing new that politics is dominated by "big money". It's not all about donations to political parties. We've seen the effects that Murdoch's news...
  • Chloe
    "Are you suggesting their ‘super-rich supporters’ are doing it out of pure altruism, Jana, or do you think they want to get something out of it"... If you ...
  • David Evans
    Steve, Regarding your suggestion 'Might the L. D. Party make it a policy to increase citizen awareness of this situation?' I would ask you the same questions I ...
  • Nonconformistradical
    "We need to put a cap on what Parties can spend during elections in addition to the cap on spending in individual constituencies." Indeed. But what about spe...