Results of the 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum information
United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum
5 May 2011
At present, the UK uses the "first past the post" system to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the "alternative vote" system be used instead?
Results
Choice
Votes
%
Yes
6,152,607
32.10%
No
13,013,123
67.90%
Valid votes
19,165,730
99.41%
Invalid or blank votes
113,292
0.59%
Total votes
19,279,022
100.00%
Registered voters/turnout
45,684,501
42.2%
Results by local voting area No: 50–55% 55–60% 60–65% 65–70% 70–75% 75–80% Yes: 50–55% 55–60% 60–65%
Main article: 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum
In the United Kingdom, the Alternative Vote referendum also known as the UK-wide referendum on the Parliamentary voting system was a referendum that took place on 5 May 2011, on whether to change the system for electing the House of Commons, the lower house of the national Parliament at Westminster. In the result of a Yes vote, future United Kingdom general elections would have used the "Alternative Vote" (AV); in the event of a No vote, the voting system would remain the same, with the UK continuing to use the "First Past the Post" (FPTP) voting system. The votes cast in the referendum were first counted in each of 440 districts or electoral divisions across the country (the "local counting areas"),[1] which were then combined and declared at a regional level (the regions being the constituent countries of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the regions of England).
Under the provisions of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 there was a total of 440 voting areas across twelve regions using the same boundaries as used in European Parliamentary elections since 1999 under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 with the exception of Gibraltar which did not participate in the referendum. In England the 326 local government districts were used as the voting areas; these consist of all unitary authorities, all metropolitan boroughs, all shire districts, the London boroughs, the City of London and the Isles of Scilly. As the date of the plebiscite coincided with elections to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly different arrangements were required for the devolved nations so in Scotland the 73 Scottish Parliamentary constituencies were used as the Scottish counting areas and in Wales the 40 Welsh assembly constituencies were used as the Welsh counting areas and Northern Ireland was a single counting area.
Ballots were due to be verified by 13:00 BST on 6 May 2011 and the votes were counted from 16:00 BST onwards.[2] Both the local and regional results were updated live online via aboutmyvote.co.uk, a publicly accessible website run by the Electoral Commission.[3]
This article lists, by voting area, all the results of the referendum, each ordered into national and regional sections.
^Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 Part 1; Section 7(2) — note: the legislation refers to them as the "voting areas".
^"Count timing decision UK Parliamentary Voting System Referendum" (PDF). The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
^"Referendum results". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
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