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[coalescent]

It's been a while since I felt so completely out of step with what polls and elections tell me is the national mood. A friend of mine just emailed the list of places that actually voted Yes to AV -- Hackney, Glasgow Kelvin, Islington, Haringey, Lambeth, Cambridge, Oxford, Southwark, Camden, Edinburgh Central -- which makes some sense of this,

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[kalorlo]

In my wider circle of acquaintances, there were a lot of people who abstained because they honestly didn't know what to vote for. And ones who voted no because they didn't understand the system or felt that the rest of the electorate just couldn't cope with the confusion.

(This included someone who was uncertain until they got to the polling booth - 3 voting papers and lots of confusion about how to fill them in and which box they were supposed to go in, not exactly helped by very bad lighting. So they voted no. Which I find incredibly depressing).

There were 800 votes in it in my constituency, which was pretty close. We were almost among the few and the purple. I did notice that the difference between for and against widens considerably as you move outwards from the centre of London.

I think Scottish independence would be a very interesting result, but I doubt it's going to happen.

[coalescent]

I did notice that the difference between for and against widens considerably as you move outwards from the centre of London.

Yes. It would be interesting to have more detailed demographic/geographical correlation with how people voted on this.

[celestialweasel]

This is the interesting map, you may have already seen it
http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S191142AM2F

[andrewducker]

Thanks for that!

[brixtonbrood]

The thing about London is that a) we didn't have council elections so only people who specifically cared about the referendum actually went out and voted and b) we use AV to elect the mayor so wevknow that it is not, in fact, madly complicated.

[ninebelow]

Wow, I can understand people voting No because thought it was too complicated but because they thought other people would find it too complicated? That blows my mind.