{"id":4717,"date":"2016-05-08T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T11:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2016-05-08T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:14:25","slug":"sue-moutstevens-retains-pcc-role-after-thin-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4717","title":{"rendered":"Sue Mountstevens retains PCC role after \u201cthin\u201d election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just 22% of South Somerset&#8217;s voters turned out to elect a Police and Crime Commissioner last week. As predicted (and advised) by the Blog, the incumbent Sue Mountstevens won, and will will hold onto her position until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The overall turnout of the region was 26.64 per cent, up from 19 per cent in the last PCC election<\/p>\n<p>The results were<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sue Mountstevens 82,708<\/li>\n<li>Kerry Barker 75,538<\/li>\n<li>The other five candidates the below following votes:<\/li>\n<li>Conservative Mark Weston 61,335<\/li>\n<li>UKIP Aaron Foot 28,038<\/li>\n<li>Liberal Democrat Paul Crossley 23,429<\/li>\n<li>Green Party Chris Briton 23,414<\/li>\n<li>Independent Kevin Phillips 22,667<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 22% of South Somerset&#8217;s voters turned out to elect a Police and Crime Commissioner last week. As predicted (and advised) by the Blog, the incumbent Sue Mountstevens won, and will will hold onto her position until 2020. The overall turnout of the region was 26.64 per cent, up from 19 per cent in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sue Mountstevens retains PCC role after \u201cthin\u201d election&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1e5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4720,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}