WATCH: Labour's David Jamieson re-elected West Midlands PCC
Labour's David Jamieson has been elected to serve as the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for a second term.
He was the first choice of 49.9 percent of voters and finished ahead of Tory candidate Les Jones, who was selected by 25.8 percent.
Mr Jamieson, a former transport minister under Tony Blair, first took up the role in August 2014 following the death of former Wolverhampton councillor Bob Jones.
Following his re-election he will remain in post until 2020.
He said: "I think that in 20 months in the role I have made a good start and made changes in a number of areas.
"The thing I want to continue with is recruiting. I have brought in 400 new officers of the 450 I promised – and I would have done all of them had the government not cut the budget by a further 25 percent.
"There has also been the Victims Commission and things like the Zombie Knives campaign which have been a success. "
Turnout at this year's PCC elections were up on previous years. Across the West Midlands 581,072 people - or 30.03 percent of eligible voters - had their say. The turnout in the 2014 by-election had been just 10.38 percent.
There were, however, a large number of rejected ballot papers totalling 28,346.
Counting of the votes took place in two stages after no one candidate secured more than 50 percent of first preferences.
Finishing in third place was UKIP's Pete Durnell with 17 percent of first picks and in fourth was Independent candidate Andy Flynn who received the backing of 7.3 percent.
