Cherwell agrees and votes to leave the EU
The Cherwell District Council results show a small victory for the leave campaign
The residents of Cherwell voted to leave the EU by the smallest of majorities. Of the 108,000 registered voters 75.5% turned out to cast a ballot on the referendum.
The leave campaign received 50.31% while the remain camp received 49.69%. This equates to 41,168 votes to leave and 40,668 to remain.
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Hide AdWest Oxfordshire, however, voted the other way with 35,236 for remain and 30,435 for leave. The voter turnout was 79.72%.
The South Northamptonshire region also had a good turnout of 79.4% with the leave vote receiving the lions share of the votes cast. In total 54.3% voted to leave consisting of 30,771 individual votes while the remain side received 45.7% of the vote with 25,853 votes cast.