UPDATED: Labour's David Jamieson wins West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner election
LABOUR'S David Jamieson has been re-elected as West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.
Mr Jamieson polled 306,578 votes across the region compared to Conservative candidate - Stourbridge councillor Les Jones - who picked up 176,922.
In Dudley - Mr Jamieson won the first stage round of results with 25,750 votes, with Cllr Jones polling 23,363 votes and UKIP's Pete Durnell - 15,952, and independent candidate Andy Flynn - 4,177.
But the second round results for the borough put Cllr Jones in front with 5,261 votes to Mr Jamieson's 4,181.
However - when the final results for the entire West Midlands region were totted up the serving Labour commissioner was left with nearly double the votes of his Tory opponent.
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