(June 24, 2016 at 9:05 pm)Tiberius Wrote: It wasn't even half the country. It was half of the 72% who turned out to vote.
I have a suspicion that if the turnout was 100% the result would have been a win for remain.
People that don't vote don't give a damn about the results and they don't matter.
Besides, unless the rules state otherwise the side that gets 50% + 1 is the winner. So if the pool of available voters is 50 million and only 50 bother to vote the side that gets 26 or more is the winner.