{"id":696840,"date":"2026-07-17T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696840\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:28:10","slug":"first-reform-uk-police-commissioner-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696840\/","title":{"rendered":"First Reform UK police commissioner elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Taylor, the Conservative candidate, said he was &#8220;very happy&#8221; with the result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I put absolutely everything I had into this election campaign and travelled right across the length and breadth of Norfolk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turnout for the election was the second lowest since the role was created in 2012, with just 17.14% of the electorate, 122,739, people voting .<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In some polling station areas voter turnout was as lower than 6%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Full Results: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Colin Sutton, Reform UK: 32,647 (Elected)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Taylor, Conservative: 18,343<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin Schmierer, Green Party: 16,907<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marcus Pearcey, Independent: 16,402<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beth Jones, Labour Party: 14,192<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Buckton, Restore Britain: 13,319<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Christopher Brown, Liberal Democrat: 10,499<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/10628994\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News App<\/a>. You can also follow <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCBreaking\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">@BBCBreaking on X, external<\/a> to get the latest alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Taylor, the Conservative candidate, said he was &#8220;very happy&#8221; with the result. &#8220;I put absolutely everything I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-696840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}