DERBYSHIRE ELECTIONS LIVE 2021: Victory for Conservatives as party remains in power of county council
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Counting started at 10am, after residents in Derbyshire went to the polls yesterday and, with all the results now in, it has been revealed that the Conservative Party will remain in control of Derbyshire County Council, with 45 seats.
A final declaration on the results of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections is expected later today.
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Hide AdIt comes after a number of high profile politicians visited the county during the run up to the election, with the Prime Minister visiting a farm in Stoney Middleton two weeks ago.
Keep up to date with the results as they come in by following our live blog below.
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Derbyshire County Council and PCC elections 2021: Victory for Tories in county elections
Key Events
- Results for Derbyshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner elections still to be revealed
- Conservative Party remains in control of Derbyshire County Council with 45 seats
- Derbyshire went to the polls yesterday, with results from the county council and PCC elections expected throughout today
- Full council results expected from 4pm
Residents to find out results of district/borough council by-elections
There were by-elections in the Dales, Bolsover, North East Derbyshire, Erewash and in South Derbyshire yesterday.
While the Conservatives have retained all four South Derbyshire District Council seats, we are still waiting for the results for the remaining by elections.
Results IN for the four South Derbyshire District Council by-elections: Cons retain seats
The Tories have secured all four seats again and are now tied with Labour with 15 councillors each.
Church Gresley: Redfern - CON - 994 Taylor - LAB - 625 - CON HOLD
Seales: Ackroyd - CON - 1,070 Frost - LAB - 527 - CON HOLD
South Derbyshire District Council
Hilton x2:
Andrew - LD - 467
Graves - REF - 105
Lemmon - CON - 1,364
Peacock - LAB - 457
Smith - CON - 1,097
Timmins - LAB - 428
High profile visits prove county is key battleground
The UK’s political top brass flocked to Derbyshire during this year’s election campaigns, potentially showing how key a contest it may prove to be - as votes are counted today.
Find out more about the influential visits politicians made to the council, by reading the full story here.
Derbyshire residents went to the polls yesterday to cast their vote
Yesterday, people voted to chose their representatives for Derbyshire County Council and the region’s Police and Crime Commissioner.
Today, we will find out which politicians have been elected with the first results expected to start coming in from 10.30am.
Votes to start being counted from 10am
Counting for the Derbyshire County Council election votes will begin at 10am this morning according to the local authority.
Results will then start to be declared across the county after that, with a final declaration expected later this afternoon.
Keep up to date by following this live blog.