Foyle posts third highest '˜Remain' vote in UK
A substantial 78.2 per cent of the electorate in Foyle voted against Brexit in the pivotal EU referendum.
Only in the London Borough of Lambeth (78.6 per cent) - ironically the base of Antrim-born Labour ‘Leave’ campaigner Kate Hoey - and Hackney (78.5 per cent), was there a higher vote for ‘Remain’.
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Hide AdThe British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, however, posted the highest ‘Remain’ vote of any electorate with a say in the referendum: 96 per cent of the electorate in Andalusia voted to ‘Remain’ for obvious economic and physical reasons.
Already the caretaker Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo has indicated that whichever government in Madrid is involved in the post-Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK, it will be playing hard ball over joint sovereignty of ‘The Rock’.
Elsewhere, in Northern Ireland, all the border counties voted ‘Remain’ in large numbers: West Tyrone and South Down (67 per cent); Newry and South Armagh (63 per cent); and Fermanagh and South Tyrone (59 per cent).
And whilst a majority of 56 per cent of the electorate across Northern Ireland favoured ‘Remain’ there was substantial support for ‘Leave’ in several unionist strongholds. East Belfast, East Antrim, South Antrim, Lagan Valley, South Antrim, Strangford and Upper Bann, all areas that return more unionist representatives than nationalists all backed Brexit.
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Hide AdThe home base of TUV leader Jim Allister (62.2 per cent) and UKIP leader David McNarry (55.5 per cent) delivered the biggest Brexit polls in Northern Ireland.
Constituencies with a nationalist majority, more mixed constituencies like East Londonderry, South Belfast and North Belfast, and the more affluent unionist constituency of North Down on the other hand, all backed ‘Remain’.
Most of England and Wales, outside of London, swung the referendum for Brexit.
In constituency terms, Scotland voted unanimously to ‘Remain’.