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Labour topped the police and crime commissioner vote in all but one area of Gwent to secure victory for Jane Mudd. 

The Newport council leader was seen as the front runner for the post which has been held by Labour’s Jeff Cuthbert, who is retiring, since 2016. 

Labour currently holds all Parliamentary and Senedd constituency seats in Gwent other than Monmouthshire, where voters went for Tory candidate Hannah Jarvis as their choice to be the person to oversee the police. 

But that wasn’t enough to secure a victory across the area as Labour’s support was enough to secure victory despite a swing to the Tories across Gwent. 

Commissioners were last elected in 2021, on the same day as the Senedd elections, which saw turnout for the Welsh Parliament vote at 46.6%. 

With no other elections on Thursday in Wales turnout for a standalone police and crime commissioner ballots was much lower, with the turnout across Gwent being 15.63% which meant from a total electorate of 442,154 just 69,124 votes were cast. The turnout is only slightly higher than the 14.9%, across Wales, for the first PCC elections in 2012 the only previous time they were held on their own. 

Comparisons with 2021 are difficult as the voting system has changed from one where voters ranked candidates in order of preference to first past the post and as there were more candidates standing. 

How the results broke down 

Gwent result

Jane Mudd (Welsh Labour & Cooperative) Elected 28, 476  

Hannah Jarvis (Welsh Conservative) 21,919  

Donna Cushing (Plaid Cymru) 9,864 

Mike Hamilton (Welsh Liberal Democrats) 8,078  

Spoilt ballots: 787 

Turnout: 15.63%, 69,124  

By council area  

Blaenau Gwent  

Labour: 3,057  

Conservative: 1,362 

Plaid Cymru: 1,065  

Liberal Democrats: 554 

Spoilt ballots: 68 

Turnout: 12.17% 

Caerphilly

Labour: 7,635 

Conservative: 4,518  

Plaid Cymru: 4,315 

Liberal Democrats: 1,723 

Spoilt ballots: 214 

Turnout: 13.93%

Monmouthshire 

Conservative: 6,653 

Labour: 5,744 

Liberal Democrats: 1,855 

Plaid Cymru: 1,168 

Spoilt ballots: 181 

Turnout: 21.20%

Newport 

Labour: 7,905 

Conservative: 6,382 

Liberal Democrats: 2,823 

Plaid Cymru: 2,032 

Spoilt ballots: 217 

Turnout: 16.88%

Torfaen 

Labour: 4,135 

Conservative: 3,004 

Plaid Cymru: 1,284

Liberal Democrats: 1,123 

Spoilt ballots: 107 

Turnout: 13.49%