The purpose of this paper is to extend Prokhorov-LeCam's criteria for compactness and Varadarajan's criterion for metrizability to vector measures with values in certain locally convex spaces. Our results contain not only Prokhorov-LeCam's and Varadarajan's criteria for real measures but a sequential compactness criterion which was recently given by M\"{a}rz and Shortt for vector measures with values in a Banach space.