Results of Suffolk PCC election, with voting breakdown for Suffolk Coastal
Tim Passmore (Conservative) has been re-elected to the paid position of Suffolk's Police & Crime Commissioner for the next four years, after a second-preference vote count that extended his first-preference lead over Cath Pickles (Labour). The overall turnout in Suffolk was 24.47% (an improvement on the 16.01% turnout in 2012, when the election last took place). Liberal Democrat candidate Helen Korfanty achieved 11,726 first-preference votes across the county.
After an election turnout in Suffolk Coastal of 26.17%, the breakdown of first-preference votes in this part of the county was as follows:
| Candidate | Party | First-pref votes | Second-pref votes | Total 1st + 2nd votes |
| Terence Carter | Green | 1375 | not counted | not applicable |
| Helen Korfanty | Liberal Democrat | 2550 | not counted | not applicable |
| Tim Passmore | Conservative | 12186 | 2156 | 14342 |
| Cath Pickles | Labour | 4744 | 1737 | 6481 |
| Simon Tobin | UKIP | 3937 | not counted | not applicable |
The number of spoilt votes seemed high. In Suffolk Coastal, 198 people entered more than one first-preference vote, suggesting that they didn't understand the mechanism of the Supplementary Vote system. A further 230 ballot papers were "void for uncertainty", meaning that the returning officer (supervised by the candidates and their agents) could not determine a voting intention from the marks on the ballot paper. From the ballot papers that were examined for a second-preference vote, 991 had not specified a second preference.