Police and Crime Commissioner election 2024
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Election notices:
- Find out who is standing: view the statement of persons nominated for the Police and Crime Commissioner election (PDF)
- Notice of Poll - Police and Crime Commissioner - 2024 (DOCX)
- Situation of polling station notice - Police and Crime Commissioner - 2024 (DOCX)
- Notice of sub agents for the Police and Crime Commissioner election (PDF)
- Notice of election agents for the Police and Crime Commissioner election (PDF)
- Notice of election for Police and Crime Commissioner 2024 (PDF)
Police and crime commissioners (PCCs) are democratically elected every four years. The next scheduled election is due to take place on Thursday 2 May 2024.
A police area returning officer (PARO) is responsible for the overall conduct of the Police and Crime Commissioners elections in a particular area. More specifically, their role includes conducting the nomination process, liaising with candidates and agents and the collation of the election result following the verification and counting of votes.
Leicester City Council has been appointed as the PARO for the Leicestershire area in the Police and Crime Commissioners elections.
Event with date
- Notice of election (the beginning of the nomination period), 26 March 2024
- Poll cards dispatched, 25 March 2024
- Deadline for receipt of nominations, 4pm 5 April 2024
- Publication of the statement of persons nominated, 4pm 8 April 2024
- Postal votes dispatched, 15 April 2024
- Deadline to register to vote, midnight 16 April 2024
- Deadline to apply for a postal vote, 5pm 17 April 2024
- Deadline to apply for a voter authority certificate, 5pm 24 April 2024
- Deadline to apply for a proxy vote, 5pm 24 April 2024
Register to vote
The deadline to register to vote was Tuesday 16 April 2024.
Postal voting
The deadline to apply for a postal vote, or to cancel or amend an existing postal vote at this election, was 5pm Wednesday 17 April.
New postal vote handling rules
Please note that there are new rules around handling postal votes. There will be a limit on the number of postal votes a person can hand in at a polling station or at the council offices – you will not be allowed to hand in more than five postal ballot packs for other electors plus your own (six in total).
If you hand in more than five postal ballot packs for other electors, all the postal votes (other than your own) will be rejected.
Anyone handing in postal votes will need to complete a ‘return of postal voting documents’ form.
We therefore can no longer accept postal votes left in the letter box at the council offices. Any postal votes which are left at any council building without the ‘return of postal voting documents’ form being completed will be rejected.
We would therefore recommend that postal votes are returned to us via Royal Mail as soon as possible before polling day.
Proxy voting
The deadline to apply for a poxy vote was 5pm Wednesday 24 April.
Voter identification
It is now a requirement to show photographic ID when voting in a polling station. You can find more information about acceptable ID and how to vote in person here: voting at the polling station