Saturday, September 20, 2014

SCOTLAND VOTES NO


Should Scotland be an independent country?

Votes
%
NO
Votes 2,001,926
55.30%
YES
Votes 1,617,989
44.70%
TARGET TO WIN
Votes 1,809,958
N/A%
After 32 of 32 counts

 

Electorate 4,283,392                                     Turnout 84.59%                     Rejected ballots 3,429



Council
Electorate
Yes
No
Aberdeen City
175,745
41.39%
58.61%
Aberdeenshire
206,486
39.64%
60.36%
Angus
93,551
43.68%
56.32%
Argyll & Bute
72,002
41.48%
58.52%
Clackmannanshire
39,972
46.20%
53.80%
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
22,908
46.58%
53.42%
Dumfries & Galloway
122,036
34.33%
65.67%
Dundee City
118,729
57.35%
42.65%
East Ayrshire
99,664
47.22%
52.78%
East Dunbartonshire
86,836
38.80%
61.20%
East Lothian
81,945
38.28%
61.72%
East Renfrewshire
72,981
36.81%
63.19%
Edinburgh
378,012
38.90%
61.10%
Falkirk
122,457
46.53%
53.47%
Fife
302,165
44.95%
55.05%
Glasgow
486,219
53.49%
46.51%
Highland
190,778
47.08%
52.92%
Inverclyde
62,481
49.92%
50.08%
Midlothian
69,617
43.70%
56.30%
Moray
75,170
42.44%
57.56%
North Ayrshire
113,923
48.99%
51.01%
North Lanarkshire
268,704
51.07%
48.93%
Orkney Islands
17,806
32.80%
67.20%
Perth & Kinross
120,015
39.81%
60.19%
Renfrewshire
134,735
47.19%
52.81%
Scottish Borders
95,533
33.44%
66.56%
Shetland Islands
18,516
36.29%
63.71%
South Ayrshire
94,881
42.13%
57.87%
South Lanarkshire
261,157
45.33%
54.67%
Stirling
69,033
40.23%
59.77%
West Dunbartonshire
71,109
53.96%
46.04%
West Lothian
138,226
44.82%
55.18%



Gordon Brown has said promises made by the "No" parties ahead of the Scottish independence referendum on change and further devolution will be delivered.

The former prime minister said it was time to move from the "battleground to the common ground" after a majority in Scotland voted "No" to leaving the UK.

He added: "We will lock in today the promises that we have made".

The SNP said a pledge to present a motion on more powers to parliament on Friday had already been broken.

Politicians in England and Scotland are considering how the UK will be governed in the future.

In a speech in Dalgety Bay, Fife, Mr Brown described three "lock ins" which he said demonstrated that pre-referendum promises would be kept:

  • a resolution has been signed by David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband and Mr Brown committing to a timetable of action including draft legislation for a new Scotland Bill by the end of January. The motion will be placed in the House of Commons on Monday.
  • civil servants were already at work drawing up a timetable and detailed plans so that a "command paper" setting out new powers can be published by the end of October.
  • a House of Commons debate to be held on Thursday 16 October to ensure the plans are on track.

Following Thursday's result, which saw 55% of of voters rejecting independence against 45% in favour, there has already been significant disagreement over the timing and extent of further devolution.

Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to deliver on the pre-referendum promises made by the three main Westminster parties to boost the powers of Scotland's devolved parliament.

He has tasked Lord Smith of Kelvin, who led Glasgow's staging of the Commonwealth Games, with overseeing the process of taking their commitments forward, with new powers over tax, spending and welfare to be agreed by November, and draft legislation published by January.

Mr Cameron has also proposed a system where only MPs from England would vote on English issues in Parliament

 

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