Tonight: South Yorkshire Police Commissioner by-election

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http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/10/what-would-a-ukip-win-in-the-south-yorkshire-pcc-by-election-tell-us/

Miliband facing battle to hold off Ukip surge in South Yorkshire as voters go to the polls to elect new police commissioner

- Defeat for Labour would be a major blow for Mr Miliband in Yorkshire stronghold who is MP for Doncaster
- Contest sparked by resignation of previous commissioner Shaun Wright
- The Labour commissioner quit after the Rotherham child abuse scandal
- Lib Dems have not fielded a candidate despite Nick Clegg being Sheffield MP


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Labour leader Ed Miliband is facing a fight to hold off the growing Ukip threat in the party's heartlands


Ed Miliband is facing a battle to hold off Ukip in his own back yard today – as voters go to the polls in South Yorkshire to elect a new police commissioner.

A defeat for Labour would be seen as a major blow for Mr Miliband whose Doncaster constituency lies in the South Yorkshire police force area.

Today’s contest was sparked by the resignation of Labour’s previous police commissioner Shaun Wright – who stood down in the wake of the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal, where an estimated 1,400 children were abused over 16 years by Pakistani gangs.


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Ukip has campaigned hard on the child abuse scandal to attack Labour. Last week, the party launched a poster featuring a young woman with the slogan: ‘There are 1,400 reasons why you should not trust Labour again’.

Nigel Farage told MailOnline the election was be close – despite his party finishing a distant fourth in the 2012 contest.

He said: ‘It will be nip and tuck. We definitely feel that if we win this it will add fuel to the fire that from Birmingham northwards, if you vote Conservative you get Labour.’

Mr Farage hopes it can keep its current momentum going by securing the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner post following its recent by-election success in Clacton.

Voters are going to the polls across the Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster - but the turnout is expected to barely top 10 per cent amid widespread disinterest.

Ukip’s candidate for the position is the retired police officer Jack Clarkson. Labour has chosen retired Anglican priest Alan Billings as its candidate – in a bid to distance itself from the Rotherham scandal.


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An interesting one for tonight, here's the results from last year to compare by ^

I don't support the Police Commissioner role and would like to see it completely scrapped, but as they do exist hopefully the voters in South Yorkshire will vote for anyone but the pedophile protection party again which turned a blind eye to the abuse of over 1,400 children in Rotherham. That's the least i'm hoping for, anyway - literally one of the most appalling and disgusting political events in the last 50 years.

No polls to go by for this one or any declaration times.

Thoughts?

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"voters go to the polls to elect new police commissioner"

I have defended you with your freedom to write whatever titles you want but this statement is just too far. Turnout prediction? Lower than 15%. lolol I don't support it either.
I didn't even know it was today lmao.

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Results coming in this morning and it amazes me how high Labour are retaining their vote despite the fact they ignored child abuse by certain 'communities' for over an entire decade.... just what do they have to do to not be elected? We're waiting on the Rotherham result to come in next, Labour are ahead comfortably atm (AV voting).

That all said, it's down to the people. But they should remember, child abuse doesn't discriminate (well it kinda does if your a white working class girl living in a Labour controlled multicultural area but yeah).


Current vote share w/ Rotherham left to declare (South Yorks PCC):

LAB - 52.3%
UKIP - 28.9%
CON - 12.9%
EDEM - 5.8%

If Labour do badly enough in Rotherham to bring the total under 50%, then it goes to second preferences.

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Labour take Rotherham too on first preferences. Astounding.

I literally cannot imagine voting for a party that covered up the abuse of thousands of children in my area even if I really liked that party nationally. That's unforgivable. Even worse that this was a ******* POLICE election.