The Police Commissioner elections - how Cornwall voted

Cornwall Council has just published individual “results” for the various local authority areas for the Police Commissioner elections. The result for Cornwall, on a 15.2% turnout, was as follows:

Name	Description	Votes
Anthony Hogg	Conservative	18,432
Brian Blake	Liberal Democrat	8,496
Nichola Williams	Labour	6,935
Robert Smith	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	6,175
Brian Greenslade	Independent	5,483
William Morris	Independent	4,065
Graham Calderwood	Independent	3,946
Ivan Jordan	Independent	3,552
John Smith	Independent	3,132
Thomas Macpherson	Independent	1,536
Rejected papers		1,926
Total		63,678

Overall, it is the Liberal Democrats who must be most worried by the result.

The 8,496 votes achieved by the Lib Dems was only 7.3% of the 117,307 votes they managed in the 2010 General Election.

By comparison, the Conservatives managed 16% of the 115,016 votes they garnered in 2010, while Labour managed 28.6% of their 24,257 votes they won in 2010.