Liberal Democrats candidate for Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner, James Sandbach faced three candidates in this year's Police and Crime Commissioner election.
RESULT
The result of the election for the post of Police & Crime Commissioner to hold Suffolk Police to account for the next four years was:
LIB DEMS WIN STOWMARKET SOUTH AND HOLD WOODBRIDGE AND THEDWASTRE SOUTH
Inga lockington retains St Margarets & Westgate seat in Ipswich
With all 75 seats declared in the County Council elections, Liberal Democrats have gained Stowmarket South from the Conservatives and held three other seats. Keith Scarff beat his Conservative, Labour and Independent opponents with a majority of 176 in this Mid Suffolk seat.
In the first of two seats to be declared in this year's County Council elections the Conservative candidate Peter Thompson in Eastgate & Morton Hall Division defeated sitting Independent Councillor Trevor Beckwith by 185 votes.
The Conservatives held off challenges from Labour, Independent and Green to retain their seat in Haverhill East and Kedington.