[1] On 15 November 2018, Police and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan became the North Yorkshire police, fire & crime commissioner, taking over the governance of North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

[2] Commissioner Philip Allott of the Conservative Party was elected on 13 May 2021 and replaced Julia Mulligan.

[6] As the North Yorkshire Authority contest involved only two candidates, a traditional 'first-past-the-post' system was implemented.

In all the police crime commissioners' elections in 2012, North Yorkshire had the highest percentage (7.2%) of spoiled or rejected ballots.

Region totals for eliminated candidates were not available and at time of retrieval, only some of the electoral authorities had results from 2016 available online.