Thursday, September 18, 2014

....if Scotland left the union

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

When will we know the result?


Voting goes on until 10pm BST tonight, though anyone still in the polling station queue at that cut-off time will get the chance to put their cross on the ballot paper.

Counting starts immediately after that, with the first results expected around 2am, with Eilean Siar, North Lanarkshire, Inverclyde, Orkney, East Lothian, Perth and Kinross, and Moray vying to be the first local authority to declare.

The results are cumulative – it’s a simple question of who gets more votes: yes or no.

But we probably won’t know for certain until the final results come in for three big cities that make up around a quarter of the electorate: Edinburgh and Glasgow at around 5am, and Aberdeen at 6am.

Throughout today and tonight, Alberto Nardelli, our data editor, along with the Guardian’s interactives teams, will be bringing live results and analysis, while the community team is scouring social media for news and reaction.

Anonymous said...

It looks like a reasonably convincing win for "No" is coming. It will be interesting to see how the SNP take this - will they accept Devolution max and bide their time for a few more years? It's hard to believe that this will be the end of the matter - more a sort of delay...