Constituencies with large student populations appear to have been among the very few to deliver 'Yes' verdicts in the national referendum on changing the voting system used to elect MPs to the UK Parliament.

In Scotland only Edinburgh Central and Glasgow Kelvin voted in favour of the change.  Edinburgh Central -which voted 51.4% Yes to 48.6% No contains Edinburgh University itself and a large number of student accomodation and student flats, including Pollock Halls, moved into the constituency as a result of recent boundary changes. 

Glasgow Kelvin - containing campuses of all three Glasgow universities - had the second largest Yes vote in the country after the North London borough of Hackney: 58.8% to 41.2%. Edinburgh Southern - containing the student areas of Marchmont and Brunstfield had one of the closest results of any constituencies in the UK: with just twenty votes separating the two sides -16,549 for the Yes campaign and 16,569.  Edinburgh Northern & Leith was almost as close: 15,034 people voted No, just 39 more than Yes, on 14,995.

Oxford and Cambridge returned a positive verdict, as did seven inner London constituencies. The proposal was defeated by a large margin: 67.9% for No (13,013,123) to 32.1% for Yes (6,152,607)