Written by Editors    Friday, 06 May 2011 16:01   
Live Blog - AV Referendum
News Blog

Welcome to the live news blog section of our website.· Check in here· with our news editors Sam, Calum·and Jordan, who will bringing you all the inside election news, gossip and latest results from AV referendum counting centre in Ingliston.

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20:04pm - This is me signing off, though for those of you still not tired of the elections, there's probably endless conjecture somewhere in the internet. For some inteactive mapping, check out: http://ukreferendumresults.aboutmyvote.co.uk/en/Default.aspx

19:55pm - In David Dimbleby's words, it's wrapped up. The UK has voted no to AV.

19:45pm - Most of the results are wrapped up, in Edinburgh constituencies the results are as follows, Edinburgh Southern is closest, with only 20 votes difference between yes and no:

Edinburgh Central: Yes - 14,486 No - 13,717 
Edinburgh Eastern: Yes - 12,110 No - 17,953 
Edinburgh Northern and Leith: Yes - 14,995 No - 15,034 
Edinburgh Pentlands: Yes - 10,614 No - 19,090 
Edinburgh Southern: Yes - 16,549 No - 16,569 
Edinburgh Western: Yes - 12,421 No - 20,689

18:51pm - The Scotsman has posted full Scottish election results - constituency and regional. 

http://www.scotsman.com/news/Full-Scottish-election-results-by.6763831.jp

18:42pm - Based on the 41% turnout, there's a prediction of a 69% nationwide No vote

18:33pm - Glasgow Pollok just declared a No vote. The BBC are making a big deal of sticking the knife - and twisting it - into Nick Clegg

18:30pm - Glasgow Kelvin has declared a Yes vote. The only one so far

18:26pm - BBC is predicting, with some visible glee at the dramatism of the situation, that the Yes camp is headed "for a drubbing"

18:00pm - In case you didn't know, the SNP have romped home and mauled Labour & the Lib Dems. The Labour leader Iain Gray has said he will stand down in the autumn, whilst PM David Cameron has promised to "fight.. with every fibre in my body" against Scottish independance.

17:56pm - The AV results have been coming in for some time now. The Guardian is reporting that of the 27 results that are in, 69.84% are No and 30.16% are Yes.

4:59pm - The Student will be bringing you realtime updates from the AV count - stay tuned!

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