Tory police and crime commissioner candidate Craig Mackinlay spent nearly £100k on failed campaign
"The Conservative candidate in the race to become Kent's first police commissioner spent nearly £100,000 on his campaign - the highest amount of any candidate in the country - and £10,000 more than the actual salary for the post.
And the eventual winner Ann Barnes spent the second largest sum - £64,676 - wooing voters across the county.
The campaign by Conservative Craig Mackinlay saw his team spend £98,751.46 - nearly half of the permitted level of £228,338 - in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to win the race in last year's election.
That was the largest sum spent by any contender in the nationwide poll for the first 41 commisssioners.
Mr Mackinlay, from Medway, entered the race with high hopes of securing the post but was beaten by the independent candidate Ann Barnes, who fought on a platform of keeping party politics out of policing..."
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