ABSTRACT
Council % Turnout Yes % No % Aberdeen 53.4 65,035 71.8 25,580 28.2 Aberdeenshire 56.7 61,621 63.9 34,878 36.1 Angus 60.0 33,571 64.7 18,350 35.3 Argyll & Bute 64.6 30,452 67.3 14,796 32.7 Clackmannan 65.8 18,790 80.0 4,706 20.0 Dumfries & Galloway 63.1 44,619 60.7 28,863 39.3 Dundee 55.3 49,252 76.0 15,553 24.0 East Ayrshire 64.5 49,131 81.1 11,426 18.9 East Dunbartonshire 72.3 40,917 69.8 17,725 30.2 East Lothian 64.9 33,525 74.2 11,665 25.8 East Renfrewshire 68.0 28,253 61.7 17,573 38.3 Edinburgh 59.8 155,900 71.9 60,832 28.1 Falkirk 63.4 55,642 80.0 13,953 20.0 Fife 60.9 125,668 76.1 39,517 23.9 Glasgow 51.2 204,269 83.6 40,106 16.4 Highland 60.3 72,551 72.6 27,431 27.4 Inverclyde 60.0 31,680 78.0 8,945 22.0 Midlothian 64.9 31,681 79.9 7,979 20.1 Moray 57.5 24,822 67.2 12,122 32.8 North Ayrshire 63.1 51,304 76.3 15,931 23.7 North Lanarkshire 60.4 123,063 82.6 26,010 17.4 Orkney 53.2 4,749 57.3 3,541 42.7 Perthshire & Kinross 62.7 40,344 61.7 24,998 38.3 Renfrewshire 62.4 68,711 79.0 18,213 21.0 Scottish Borders 64.4 33,855 62.8 20,060 37.2 Shetland 51.3 5,430 62.4 3,275 37.6 South Ayrshire 66.4 40,161 66.9 19,909 33.1 South Lanarkshire 62.8 114,908 77.8 32,762 22.2 Stirling 65.5 29,190 68.5 13,440 31.5 West Dunbartonshire 63.4 39,051 84.7 7,058 15.3 West Lothian 62.3 56,923 79.6 14,614 20.4 Western Isles 55.3 9,977 79.4 2,589 20.6 Total 60.2 1,775,045 74.3 614,400 25.7
ii) Question on the Parliament having tax-varying powers
Council Yes % No % Aberdeen 54,320 60.3 35,709 39.7 Aberdeenshire 50,295 52.3 45,929 47.7 Angus 27,641 53.4 24,089 46.6 Argyll & Bute 25,746 57.0 19,429 43.0 Clackmannan 16,112 68.7 7,355 31.3 Dumfries & Galloway 35,737 48.8 37,499 51.2 Dundee 42,304 65.5 22,280 34.5 East Ayrshire 42,559 70.5 17,824 29.5 East Dunbartonshire 34,576 59.1 23,914 40.9 East Lothian 28,152 62.7 16,765 37.3 East Renfrewshire 23,580 51.6 22,153 48.4 Edinburgh 133,843 62.0 82,188 38.0 Falkirk 48,064 69.2 21,403 30.8 Fife 108,021 64.7 58,987 35.3 Glasgow 182,589 75.0 60,842 25.0 Highland 61,359 62.1 37,525 37.9 Inverclyde 27,194 67.2 13,277 32.8 Midlothian 26,776 67.7 12,762 32.3 Moray 19,326 52.7 17,344 47.3 North Ayrshire 43,990 65.7 22,991 34.3 North Lanarkshire 107,288 72.2 41,372 27.8 Orkney 3,917 47.4 4,344 52.6 Perthshire & Kinross 33,398 51.3 31,709 48.7 Renfrewshire 55,075 63.6 31,537 36.4 Scottish Borders 27,284 50.7 26,497 49.3 Shetland 4,478 51.6 4,198 48.4 South Ayrshire 33,679 56.2 26,217 43.8 South Lanarkshire 99,587 67.6 47,708 32.4 Stirling 25,044 58.9 17,487 41.1 West Dunbartonshire 34,408 74.7 11,628 25.3 West Lothian 47,990 67.3 23,354 32.7 Western Isles 8,557 68.4 3,947 31.6 Total 1,512,889 63.5 870,263 36.5
Do you want the provisions of the Wales Act 1978 to be put into effect? Spoilt Ballot
Electorate T’out % Yes % No % Papers Clwyd 284,639 51.1 31,384 21.6 114,119 78.4 227 Dyfed 247,431 64.6 44,849 28.1 114,947 71.9 463 Gwent 319,387 55.3 21,369 12.1 155,389 87.9 189 Gwynedd 171,051 63.4 37,363 34.4 71,157 65.6 276 Mid Glamorgan 394,264 58.6 46,747 20.2 184,196 79.8 929 Powys 80,817 66.0 9,843 18.5 43,502 81.5 175 South Glamorgan 282,907 58.7 21,830 13.1 144,186 86.9 595 West Glamorgan 275,853 57.5 29,663 18.7 128,834 81.3 455 Total 2,056,349 1 58.3 243,048 20.3 956,330 79.7 3,309 1. A provision of the Wales Act was that not less than 40% of persons entitled to vote voted ‘Yes’ in the
At the referendum 1,112,117 valid votes were cast, representing 50.1% of the Welsh electorate. There were 3,999 spoilt ballot papers. Of those voting, 559,419 (50.3%) agreed that there should be a Welsh Assembly and 552,698 (49.7%) did not agree. A ‘Yes’ majority of just 6,721.The results of the referendum were counted and announced for each local authority area in Wales.
