Polls close in city councils and Cambs & Peterborough PCC elections

Polls have closed in the election for new city councillors and a county's police and crime commissioner (PCC).

The elections will decide who sits on Cambridge City Council and Peterborough City Council and who will be the PCC.

Polling stations opened at 07:00 BST and closed at 22:00, with the results to be declared on Friday on the council website.

Constituents needed photo ID to vote in the poll.

Cambridge City Council has 14 of its 42 seats available to vote for. In Peterborough, just over a third of the city council's seats are up for grabs.

There are three candidates standing for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough PCC role: Edna Murphy (Liberal Democrat), current commissioner Darryl Preston (Conservative) and Anna Smith (Labour).

The result of who has won the four-year term will be announced on Friday.

PCCs are elected officials whose job is to help ensure police forces function effectively, but not to run those forces themselves.

They hold police forces to account and scrutinise their performance on behalf of the public.

Chief constables are appointed by them and they can dismiss them, if required.

It is also their job to set the annual budget for their force and decide the level of the slice of council tax dedicated to police funding, known as the police precept.

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