RE: Un-United Kingdom
September 20, 2014 at 6:39 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2014 at 7:01 am by jesus_wept.)
(September 20, 2014 at 5:30 am)fr0d0 Wrote: 45% of those eligible to vote.
In total, 3,619,915 million people voted, making the turnout 84.5%.
The "No" side finished with 2,001,926 votes to 1,617,989. 55% to 45%.
4,283,392 people - 97% of the electorate - had registered to vote.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-29263237
It's 45% of the people who voted, not 45% of those eligible to vote.
Using your figures. 97% of the electorate had registered to vote, so that is 100% of those eligible to vote. Therefore -
1,617,989/4,283,392=0.3777354489152522
Which means approximately 37.8% of of those eligible to vote voted yes.
And, if you do the rest of the maths, you'll see that 46.7% voted no and the remaining 15.5% didn't vote.
Again, where on earth do you all get your facts from?