Police and Crime Commissioner Election
The Police and Crime Commissioner elections will be held on Thursday 2 May 2024.
Police and Crime Commissioner Election
Police and Crime Commissioners were created in England and Wales by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, with the first Election held in 2012 and subsequently in 2016.
The last Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Election was held in May 2021, which had been postponed from 2020 due to the coronavirus. The term of office is usually four years, but because it was postponed, this term has been a period of three years.
Find out more about the Police, Crime and Commissioner below.
Police and Crime Commissioner
About the election
The South Wales Police Area covers the following areas and there’s a Local Returning Officer for each:
- Bridgend
- Cardiff
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Neath Port Talbot
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Swansea
- Vale of Glamorgan
Karen Jones from Neath Port Talbot is the Police Area Returning Officer for the May 2024 PCC Election and is responsible for the overall conduct of the PCC Election, including:
- Liaising with Local Returning Officers in the South Wales Police Area
- Publishing the notice of election
- Administering the nomination process
- Publishing the statement of persons nominated and notice of poll
- Encouraging participation
- Ensuring that the requirements as to the content of the candidates’ election addresses and the procedure for submitting those addresses are complied with
- Collating and calculating the number of votes given for each candidate at the PCC election and calculating the result
- Declaration of the result.
Rob Thomas from the Vale of Glamorgan is the Local Returning Officer and is responsible within their voting area for:
- Encouraging participation
- The provision of polling stations
- The printing of ballot papers
- The conduct of the poll
- Appointing polling station staff
- Managing the postal vote process
- Managing Voter ID
- The verification and count in their voting area
- Transmission of the local totals to the Police Area Returning Officer.
Further information about the Police Area Returning Officer can be found here.
The key dates for this election are:
We will deliver your polling card around 25 March 2024. This will provide information on whether you are registered to vote by post, or at a polling station.
Some polling stations have changed location. Please check your poll card for your up-to-date polling station.
You can also find your polling station online.
If you are registered to vote by post, we will deliver your postal ballot pack around 15 April.