Backwoodsman - 24 Oct 16 - 03:36 AM

34% of the electorate voted to leave. 66% didn't - even you should be able to do the maths.

Not quite the full story is it Backwoodsman

Number of local areas declared: 382/382
Remain: 16,141,241 (48.1%)
Leave: 17,410,742 (51.9%)
Total Electorate: 46,500,001
Turnout: 72.2%
Rejected Ballots: 25,359

If you want to take the total electorate into account

It was 34% of the electorate voted to REMAIN - 66% didn't

37.4% of the total electorate voted to leave
34.7% of the total electorate voted to remain
27.9% of the electorate could did not vote at all.

Of those who felt strongly enough to stir themselves off their backsides to vote 52% voted to leave and 48% voted to remain - live with it.

In the 1975 Referendum voter turn out was 64.03%
In the 2016 Referendum voter turn out was 72.2%