Tories spent most for Leicestershire crime commissioner election
The Conservatives slightly outspent Labour in their bid to win the police and crime commissioner election.
Published figures show the Tories spent £14,727.79 in their successful effort to get Sir Clive Loader elected to the position. Labour spent £14,480.06 trying to win it for its candidate, Sarah Russell.
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Sir Clive Loader
Former senior RAF officer Sir Clive was backed by 64,661 voters. Leicester assistant mayor Councillor Russell got 51,835 votes.
Independent Suleman Nagdi, got 21,744 votes, having spent £5,243.75 on his campaign.
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Under election laws there was a spending cap of just over £140,000 for each candidate.
The spending figures have been published by North West Leicestershire District Council, which acted as the returning authority for the election. They showed Sir Clive's campaign team spent £2,320 on advertising, slightly more than £10,300 on fliers, leaflets and posters, £1,566 on agent and staff costs and £500 on office accommodation and administration costs.
Coun Russell's campaign spending included £50 on advertising, £9,075.23 on publicity material, £861 on transport, £4,040.98 on agent and staff costs and just over £450 on accommodation and administration.
Mr Nagdi spent nearly £3,800 on advertising, £1,400 on leaflets and posters and £78.74 on accommodation.
Sir Clive's campaign received £13,200 of donations from Conservative Party associations across Leicestershire and Rutland. Unions and local Labour parties donated £14,480.06, Coun Russell's total campaign spend.
Mr Nagdi received £6,310 in donations from businesses and individuals. He said that figure was higher than his total spend because he had declared £2,160 in sponsorship from a dairy as a donation.
The cash was paid by the dairy directly to an advertising agency and not to himself.
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by KulganCrydee
Wednesday, February 20 2013, 10:22AM
“By the fact that Sir Clive was the top man in the Royal Air Force, commanding a budget of Billions & managing a workforce of 30+ k I don't think he can be described as clueless.
Have to agree with democrat, taking an earned pension of anyone is bad, but off a member of the Armed Forces who were willing to lay down their lives so that people can have free speech & live as we do is particularly distasteful.”
by LewisC109
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 9:07PM
“ask me its all a loader rubish”
by democrat
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 7:41PM
“Bob
Still wanting to take pensions away from armed services pesonnel - shame on you”
by Bob491
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 7:03PM
“Since the so called 'winner' only gained the support of a mere one person in every thirteen of the electorate, it proves that all the money spent was completely wasted.
We don't want PCCs at all, especially not if tax payers then have to waste £75,000 a year on his salary on top of his lucrative 100% tax payer funded gold plated pension as well as £400,000 a year of tax payers money on employing other people to tell the clueless PCC how to do the job properly.”
by anobserver
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 5:01PM
“bob aka boring bob.where and who did you vote for?
also ,did you vote in person for soulsby?if so where?”
by IvanTheGreat
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 3:00PM
“Still not happy BOB491? Seems like you're still spouting the same old boring comments about your opposition to Sir Clive. Get over it, your beloved labour candidate didn't win.”
by Bob491
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 1:56PM
“I am in favour of downsizing all top end pay packets and forcing the over wealthy to pay taxes as they should instead of this rampant tax avoidance. There is far too much greed and inequality in this country. Even the Con Ian Duncan Smith recognises that stacking shelves is as important as any other job and should therefore receive comparable pay with MPs or bankers!
I am not in favour of dumbing down services for the unwealthy, nor am I in favour of letting private companies do whatever they like, however illegal or disastrous for the rest of us.
I am against a PCC taking £75,000 of tax payers money when he is already receiving a top end gold plated pension 100% paid for by tax payers too. Had he paid into his pension himself it might be a little different. The extra £400,000 on top could be sliced by £100,000 by cutting top end pay.
I'm sure you will agree.”
by jonger
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 1:54PM
“Interesting figures - as someone who lives in the county I only received any election literature from Clive Loader - did the other two only campaign in the city?”
by anobserver
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 1:48PM
“Considering Nagdi is supposed to live in Leicestershire,where did he blow close on £8 thousand on accomodation ?”
by democrat
Tuesday, February 19 2013, 1:26PM
“Bob
Since gutted that the Labour lackey missed out?
Just one point - as you know because Ciaran the Crime Reporter pointed it out to you - the money spent on the admin was being spent already under the old system . Are you suggesting that they all be sacked? I am all for a heavy reduction in the Public Sector as your know - have you now seen the light too?”