Sarah Cooper of ITV News Anglia is on the count in Kettering, where Brickhill and Queensway remain conservative. Photo credit: ITV News Anglia / Sarah Cooper
The Northamptonshire local elections today include two new unit councils and the county commissioner for police, fire and crime.
The results will be displayed here once the votes have been counted on Friday and MondayThe local elections, which usually take place in May each year, have piled up because they were postponed during the pandemic.
There was also a shake in the local government in Northamptonshire after the defunct county council virtually went bankrupt and was bailed out by the government.
Northamptonshire County Council and all of the county councils in Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire and Wellingborough were scrapped and two unified agencies were established in their place.
These are the first elections to the North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire Councils
Elections in Northamptonshire on Thursday May 6th
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All 78 seats in the new North Northamptonshire Council – three councilors are elected in each electoral division
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All 93 seats in the new West Northamptonshire Council – three councilors are elected in each electoral division
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Northamptonshire Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner – currently Conservative Stephen Mold
The interactive map shows the party winner in each electoral division in Northamptonshire as the results are in both the new North and West Councils
On Thursday, polling stations were open with social distancing measures, including wearing a face covering, and voters were asked to use their own pen or pencil.
Coronavirus security measures also affect the counting of votes, which is usually done immediately after polling stations close and until the early hours of the following day.
This year the censuses will be carried out over several days across the Anglia region and all results will not be announced until the following Monday.
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Watch a report on the New Councils in Northamptonshire by Graham Stothard of ITV News Anglia
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The results will be included in this online article as soon as they are received
Northamptonshire Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner
The four candidates for Police, Fire & Crime Commissioners in Northamptonshire
There are four candidates for Police, Fire & Crime Commissioners in Northamptonshire.
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Ana Savage Gunn – Liberal Democrat
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Mark Hearn – reform
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Stephen Mold – Conservative
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Clare Pavitt – Job
More details on local elections in other regions of the Anglia region
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The interactive map shows the party winner in each Northamptonshire County Council electoral division in the last election in 2017 and the percentage majority