Hackney has highest Yes to AV vote in the UK

On the day of the Alternative Vote referendum, I conducted a simple exit poll in our office foyer. We have about 50 people working in our building and while the poll might not have been scientific or statistically significant, the results showed that AV was certainly favoured in our neck of the woods.

Interestingly, this seems to chime with the official results. The Hackney Citizen reports:

Hackney has bucked the trend, voting 61% in favour of the proposed changes to the parliamentary electoral system.

The ‘yes’ vote beat the ‘no’ vote in only six London boroughs (Camden, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Southwark and Hackney)

At least this gives me some sort of affirmation that the people around me are like-minded. I think there’s a silver lining in that.