BALLOT counting continues in Huddersfield to discover the winner of the first Police Commissioner for West Yorkshire.
Counting staff at Cathedral House on St Thomas' Road are now checking ballot papers for second preferences indicated by voters after no candidate got to the 50% winning line with the first choice votes.
A total of 221,257 verified votes were cast in West Yorkshire out of an electorate of 1,609,615.
There were more than 8,000 spoiled papers.
The figures mean that just 13.76% of eligible voters turned out to vote.
In Kirklees just 42,378 people cast their vote from an electorate of almost 310,000 giving a turnout of 13.69%.
Labour candidate and former West Yorkshire Police Authority chairman Mark Burns-Williamson secured almost 48% of the vote with 102,817 first choice votes.
Independent Cedric Christie accrued 49,299 votes while Conservative candidate Geraldine Carter polled 45,365.
Lib-Dem Andrew Marchington was in fourth with just 17,247.
The Conservative and Lib-Dem candidates have now dropped out of the race with counters checking second preference votes for the Labour and Independent candidates.
Whoever reaches the 50% threshold, which is just over 110,000 votes, will be declared the first holder of the £100,000-a-year position.
