Cheshire East votes for Brexit as Britain prepares to leave European Union

by Lisa Reeves

Friday 24^th June 2016

Fri 24^th Jun 2016

Many of us will have woken up to the news that Britain has voted to leave the European Union.

The overall turnout in yesterday's vote was 72.2% with 51.9% voting to leave and 48.1% voting to remain.

Whilst England and Wales voted for Brexit both Northern Ireland and Scotland were in favour of remaining.

In Cheshire East there was a 77.3% turnout with 51.2% voting to leave and 48.8% backing remain.

Many areas in the North West, including Warrington and Cheshire West & Chester, voted to leave the European Union whilst Stockport, Manchester and Trafford all voted to remain.

After six years in office David Cameron has just announced that he he will step down by October.

England voted 53% Leave, 46.6% Remain

Northern Ireland voted 44.2% Leave, 55.8% Remain

Scotland voted 38% Leave, 62% Remain

Wales voted 52.5% Leave, 47.5% Remain.

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Alan R Davies

Sunday 26^th June 2016 at 3:53 pm

In the interests of completeness, the result from the Macclesfield count which included Alderley Edge and Wilmslow was 54.3% for Remain and 45.7% for Leave. It doesn't make a scrap of difference to the result of course, but those who voted Remain might feel reassured that there were more of a like mind than might have been assumed through the comments on these pages.