Not exact matches
«Watch out for
Remain -
voting areas swinging towards Labour and
Leave -
voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.
«I was
voting remain, and at the very last minute I changed my decision and I went to
leave,» she explained.
A spokesman would not comment on Cambridge Analytica directly, but said its «investigation is ongoing, and
remains ongoing, into
Leave.EU and
Vote Leave.»
In Newcastle, 65,404 people
voted to
remain in the EU, while 63,598
voted to
leave, a split of 50.7 % to 49.3 %.
Voters on the island off the Spanish coast
voted 96 % -4 % to stay, with 19,322 people backing
Remain, and just 823
voting to
leave the EU.
The United Kingdom, which includes Northern Ireland,
voted in 2016 to
leave the European Union, but the Republic of Ireland
remains within the bloc.
The polling gap between Clinton and Trump right now is a bit wider than final polling between the
Leave and
Remain camps showed, but after a shock
vote like this, it is worth keeping your guard up ahead of the actual
vote.
Ahead of the referendum, analysts across Wall Street circulated research on what they thought would happen in the event of either a «
Remain» or «
Leave»
vote.
In total, 61,745 people
voted Leave, 51,220 to
Remain.
Last year's
vote to
leave the EU has highlighted tensions among the United Kingdom's four constituent regions: England and Wales
voted to
leave, Scotland and Northern Ireland to
remain.
But a
vote to
Leave would almost certainly force a change of leadership in the Conservative Party and a new Prime Minister, given Cameron's leading of the
Remain campaign.
The day before the
vote, London odds makers gave 80 % chance that
Remain would be victorious, as polls revealed a 10 - point edge over the
Leave campaign.
As Brexit draws closer — Britain's split from the European Union is scheduled for March 2019 — the issue
remains contentious nearly two years after British people
voted 51.9 % to 48.1 % in favor of
leaving the EU.
But numerous irritants
remain,
leaving uncertainty about what happens next, with U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs set to kick in next week and the deadline fast approaching to get a deal that can be
voted on by the current U.S. Congress.
The referendum results showed a majority of those
voting in favour of
leaving the European Union, although the next steps
remain highly uncertain.
From an economic and market viewpoint
voting to
leave will doubtless generate huge uncertainty compared with
voting to
remain.
England and Wales both
voted to
leave the European bloc while Scotland and Northern Ireland were aligned in their desire to
remain members.
This
leaves five open slots and the brilliant marketing team over there has decided to have a fan
voting contest to see which characters will get the
remaining spots.
In fact, the idea that the UK would
leave the EU was so preposterous that many
voted in favor of it simply as an act of protest, motivated by the assumption that their
vote «wouldn't matter» because «
remain» would win out anyway.
It's still unclear whether we will
vote to
remain or
leave next week.
It
remains to be seen whether the nature and the depth of feeling that resulted in a «
leave»
vote will now translate to a decline in public support for international development and a desire to change the nature of the UK's role on the global stage.
«We have to
leave the trench warfare of the referendum behind and bring voters together, whether they voted Leave or Remain.&r
leave the trench warfare of the referendum behind and bring voters together, whether they
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Leave or
Remain.»
To overcome this problem we have, on behalf of the BBC, been beavering away at establishing which local authorities appear to be more likely to record a relatively strong
vote for
Remain, which are the ones where
Leave can be expected to do relatively well, and which are the council areas where the two sides could be expected to be equally matched.
Even now as voters head to the polls, Ipsos MORI's latest polling suggests a large proportion of the public are yet to fully commit to
voting Leave or
Remain.
Most of Wales is like most of England, with the metropolitan city (Cardiff)
voting Remain and the rest of the country mostly for
Leave.
Soubry also issued a rallying call to young voters to register to
vote in the referendum and to back
Remain, with a dig at
Leave campaigners — which she subsequently defended on Twitter.
Education levels seem to have been influential as well, 64 % of those without formal education
voted Leave, while two thirds of graduates, as well as four firths of those in full - time education,
voted Remain.
Between them these two steps give us an estimate of the share of the
vote for
Remain and
Leave in each local authority.
Many Labour figures
remain beset by flashbacks to this 30 - year - old defeat, assuming, Blair - like, that any move to the
left will lose
votes.
While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will
remain the swing
vote, providing a fifth
vote for a majority of progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and
remaining with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie
votes, which will
leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding precedent on lower courts.
What's more, the Survation poll also found that 4.4 percent of
Remain voters (710,214 people) wished they'd
voted Leave.
Since the UK
voted to
leave the EU in June, Sturgeon has made much of the fact that 62 per cent of Scots
voted to
remain.
Britain as a whole
voted by 52 % to 48 % to
leave but in Scotland the picture was different, with 62 % backing
remain.
Cameron had urged the country to
vote Remain, but
Leave won by 52 % to 48 %.
This breathtakingly simplistic analysis amounts to little more than the assertion that clever, open - minded people
voted to
Remain whereas stupid, backward people
voted to
Leave.
In other words, had the whole of that population segment
voted with the same proportion of
remain votes, the ceteris paribus outcome would have been 18,8 million «Remain» versus 18.3 million «Leave&r
remain votes, the ceteris paribus outcome would have been 18,8 million «
Remain» versus 18.3 million «Leave&r
Remain» versus 18.3 million «
Leave».
It might be objected that such a long period between
votes leaves Scotland vulnerable: what if the rest of the United Kingdom embarked on a scheme so hazardous (such as resolving to
leave the European Union, for example) that Scotland's vital interests were imperilled by
remaining part of the Union?
While 97 % of Labour members might wish to
remain in the EU, polling shows that 27 - 33 % of people who
voted Labour in 2015 want to
leave.
But Jeremy Corbyn hoovered up
Remain votes and held on to
Leave voters who were looking for an alternative to May's drudgery and gruel.
He said: «If they drive through the Brexit deal it will be 100 % owned by the Tories,» and argued that come the general election due in 2022 «The 17 million who
voted for
Leave will be short on gratitude and the 16 million who
voted for
Remain will be long on memory.»
The ace political number cruncher Robert (now Lord) Hayward tells me: «Unless something substantial changes in the
remaining days of the Euro referendum campaign, the balance of probability is that the nation will
vote to
leave.»
«There will be a decision made on Thursday, I'm hoping there is going to be a
Remain vote, there may well be a
Remain vote, there may well be a
Leave vote.
The
Leave or so - called #Brexit option was victorious, with a margin of 52 per cent to 48 per cent across the country, although Scotland, Northern Ireland, London and some towns
voted to
remain.
Lord Ashcroft Polls found those aged under 50 were highly likely to have
voted Remain, while those over 50 were much more likely to have
voted Leave.
One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who
voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who
voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst
Remain voters while advancing amongst their
Leave counterparts.
The foreign secretary will call on
remain and
leave voters to unite, insisting that Britain can take advantage of the referendum
vote for economic gain but only if it is ready to diverge on regulations.
In spite of May's claim that she wanted to «bring our country back together», the results underlined sharp divisions between England's towns and cities and between
leave and
remain -
voting areas.
More than this, though, no one predicted that within weeks of a
vote all of the
Leave campaign's victorious leaders would have resigned from the field and a new Prime Minister (who supported
Remain, however quietly) would be installed in Downing Street.
In the run - up to this crucial moment, we need clarity as to what the options are and what will happen in the event of a
vote to
remain or to
leave.
More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining
votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which
voted remain in 2016, while losing
votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who
voted leave.