Wednesday 3 August 2016

Britain votes to leave European Union, forecast UK channels



LONDON: The camp in favour of Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) was leading by four percentage points over the Remain camp with over 90 per cent of results declared in the referendum today as a BBC forecast said the results were for ‘Brexit’.
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  • With 200 of 382 results declared, Brexit leads 51.7%

Ballot boxes are on the way to more than 380 count venues after the EU referendum in Britain closed at 10 p.m. local time.

Millions of Britons went to about 41,000 polling stations on Thursday to cast their ballots in the EU referendum on whether their country should remain in or leave the European bloc.

As the referendum started at 7 a.m., several polling stations opened late on as overnight downpours hit London and southeast England, according to Xinhua.

Local media said two polling stations were closed by Kingston Council because of flooding, and voters were instructed to cast their ballots at alternative locations. Another polling station in Dover had power outage due to storms.

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