Results of the 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum
Counting Area Turnout% No votes Yes votes No% Yes%
Aberdeen Central 45.35 13,838 10,385 57.13 42.87
Aberdeen Donside 47.71 17,265 9,048 65.61 34.39
Aberdeen South and North Kincardine 52.37 17,945 9,818 64.64 35.36
Aberdeenshire East 52.68 19,538 10,359 65.35 34.65
Aberdeenshire West 53.37 18,119 10,131 64.14 35.86
Airdrie and Shotts 46.35 15,767 7,845 66.78 33.22
Almond Valley 51.44 18,871 11,458 62.22 37.78
Angus North and Mearns 47.79 16,739 7,877 68.00 32.00
Angus South 50.01 18,834 8,404 69.15 30.85
Argyll and Bute 53.73 16,580 9,526 63.51 36.49
Ayr 54.32 22,821 10,202 69.11 30.89
Banffshire and Buchan Coast 46.55 17,451 7,153 70.93 29.07
Caithness , Sutherland and Ross 52.15 17,848 10,364 63.26 36.74
Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley 48.13 20,100 8,384 70.57 29.43
Clackmannanshire and Dunblane 55.57 17,077 9,993 63.08 36.92
Clydebank and Milngavie 53.72 17,409 10,730 61.87 38.13
Clydesdale 52.50 19,605 10,109 65.98 34.02
Coatbridge and Chryston 45.31 14,905 8,122 64.73 35.27
Cowdenbeath 47.03 16,831 8,360 66.81 33.19
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 52.14 16,024 8,857 64.40 35.60
Scotland
Results in ScotlandColours : Yes 50-65% No > 65% No The constituencies of the Scottish Parliament were used as the local voting areas for the UK-wide referendum throughout Scotland . [ 1 ] United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum , 2011 Scotland Choice Votes% No 1,249,375 63.64% Yes 713,813 36.36% Valid votes 1,963,188 99.37% Invalid or blank votes 12,370 0.63% Total votes 1,975,558 100.00% Registered voters and turnout 3,893,268 50.74% Scotland referendum results ( without spoiled ballots ) : Yes : 713,813 ( 36.4% ) No : 1,249,375 ( 63.6% ) ▲ Scotland was broken down into 73 voting areas .
In the United Kingdom, the Alternative Vote referendum also known as the UK-wide referendum on the Parliamentary voting system was a referendum that took place on 5 May 2011, on whether to change the system for electing the House of Commons, the lower house of the national Parliament at Westminster. In the result of a Yes vote, future United Kingdom general elections would have used the Alternative Vote (AV); in the event of a No vote, the voting system would remain the same, with the UK continuing to use the First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system. The votes cast in the referendum were first counted in each of 440 districts or electoral divisions across the country (the local counting areas), which were then combined and declared at a regional level (the regions being the constituent countries of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the regions of England). Under the provisions of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 there was a total of 440 voting areas across twelve regions using the same boundaries as used in European Parliamentary elections since 1999 under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 with the exception of Gibraltar which did not participate in the referendum. In England the 326 local government districts were used as the voting areas; these consist of all unitary authorities, all metropolitan boroughs, all shire districts, the London boroughs, the City of London and the Isles of Scilly. As the date of the plebiscite coincided with elections to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly different arrangements were required for the devolved nations so in Scotland the 73 Scottish Parliamentary constituencies were used as the Scottish counting areas and in Wales the 40 Welsh assembly constituencies were used as the Welsh counting areas and Northern Ireland was a single counting area. Ballots were due to be verified by 1pm on 6 May 2011 and the votes were counted from 4pm onwards. Both the local and regional results were updated live online via aboutmyvote.co.uk, a publicly accessible website run by the Electoral Commission. This article lists, by voting area, all the results of the referendum, each ordered into national and regional sections.