Canadian politician and diplomat
This article is about the Canadian-born English politician and former diplomat. For the Canadian actor and musician, see
Lorne Greene.
Lorne Edmond Green is a Canadian-born English politician and former diplomat, who was Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, representing the Conservative Party. Green was elected to the post on 5 May 2016, succeeding the previous incumbent, Stephen Bett.[1]
Biography
Diplomacy
Born in Nova Scotia, Green is a graduate of Dalhousie University in Halifax.[2] He joined the Canadian Department of External Affairs after graduation, and held diplomatic posts in Pakistan, Iran and Yugoslavia, as well as serving at the Canadian High Commission in London under Paul Martin,[2] where he was promoted to become the mission's press officer.[3] In the 1980s, he served on NATO's Nuclear Planning Group in Brussels dealing with the controversy surrounding cruise missiles, and was also Director of Nuclear and Arms Control Policy in the Department of National Defence in Ottawa, Ontario.[4]
In 1998, he left External Affairs to help form the World Nuclear Transport Institute in London, and later retired from the diplomatic world in 2011, opening a coffee shop in Snettisham.[2]
Police and Crime Commissioner
In 2015, Green was approached by the local Conservative Party association to stand in the 2016 election for Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner, which he won in May 2016.[2] Green chose not to stand for re-election, citing the long drive between his home in King's Lynn and the office in Wymondham.[5] After the election was postponed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he was eventually succeeded by Giles Orpen-Smellie in May 2021.[6]
Electoral record
| Norfolk Police and Crime Commissioner election, 2016
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| Party
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Candidate
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1st round
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2nd round
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1st round votesTransfer votes, 2nd round
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| Total
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Of round
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Transfers
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Total
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Of round
|
|
|
Conservative
|
Lorne Green
|
42,928
|
27.76%
|
17,133
|
60,061
|
54.43
|
|
|
|
Labour
|
Chris Jones
|
37,141
|
24.02%
|
13,146
|
50,287
|
45.57
|
|
|
|
UKIP
|
David Moreland
|
27,030
|
17.48%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Independent
|
Stephen Bett
|
25,527
|
16.51%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Liberal Democrats
|
Jacky Howe
|
12,838
|
8.30%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Green
|
Martin Schmierer
|
9,187
|
5.94%
|
|
|
|
|
| Turnout
|
154,651
|
23.20%
|
|
|
|
Conservative gain from Independent
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