Thirdly, when one steps back and realizes that 48% of voters on a 84% turnout voted for Leave when its proponents had no plan for how it would be accomplished or alternative government, and when the Global situation, with a Democratic President in Washington, was at its worst, there are worrying trends.
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– Wales -With one result left to declare, Brexit backers in Wales claimed victory, with “Leave” at 828,907 votes and “Remain” at 736,830. “It may be the first sign that the “remain” side are not going to do as well as those early polls suggested”.
According to Prof Curtice, the Remain vote is about 10% short of what was expected in north-east England and although Remain is ahead in Scotland, turnout is lower than in the rest of the UK. If Britain votes to leave the European Union, it would be the first country to do so.
British broadcasters are not conducting so-called exit polls – in which people are asked as they leave polling stations how they voted – because the European Union referendum is a virtually unprecedented event and the margin of error could be too large.
After hours of watching the polls be split down the middle, the Brexit campaign to leave was successful, securing a narrow lead at 51.9% with 17,410,742 votes, remain ending up at 48.1% receiving 16,141,241 votes. The pound was last up 1.05 percent at $1.4852. The previous Ipsos Mori poll showed 49:43 for Remain, so this is a big shift.
There was no exit poll because the BBC said that the margin of error would be too great.
The Populus poll sampled an audience of 4,700 people online.
The Daily Mail, which publicly supported the Brexit campaign, even went so far as to suggest today that many Britons simply didn’t know “why they voted for Brexit”.
As the referendum started at 7 a.m., several polling stations opened late on as overnight downpours hit London and southeast England, according to media.
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In nearby South Tyneside, 62 percent wanted to leave the EU. Reports of high turnout and an expected swing to the status quo are likely reasons for the high expectation of a remain victory.
