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24 JUNE 2016 • 10:27AM

efore the referendum, much was made about how different demographic groups had

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vastly different opinions on the decision.

Now that Britain has voted to leave the European Union, we can see how the result may

have been influenced by different concerns and backgrounds.

From age and class, to immigrant population and Ukip vote, certain patterns

kept indicating how each part of the UK were going to vote in the EU referendum.

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Those aged over 60 were the most likely group to want to leave the EU, according the polls

before the vote. 

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As you can see from the map, the East coast areas that scored the highest anti-EU votes are

also the areas with the highest pensioner populace.

Just two of the top thirty areas for over 65s voted to Remain - South Lakeland in the North

West and South Hams in the South West.

Leave vote (%)

Old

er p

opul

atio

n (%

)

How Brexit appealed to the older generationBrexit vote compared to proportion of those aged over 65; each point representing

a local area

30 40 50 60 700

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

Source: ONS

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According the polls, university graduates were the most likely people to want to remain in

the EU - while those with a GCSE or equivalent as their highest qualification were more

likely to back Brexit.

This was a pattern that was reflected in the results.

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Only three of 35 areas where more than half of residents had a degree voted to leave -

South Bucks, West Devon, and Malvern Hills in the West Midlands.

Leave vote (%)

No

educ

atio

n (%

)Those with no education tended to vote Brexit

Brexit vote compared to proportion of those aged 16-64 with no education; eachpoint representing a local area

30 40 50 60 700

5

10

15

20

25

Source: NOMIS

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Levels of education and class overlap strongly in the UK, and so the Brexit vote also

matched up with areas with higher levels of people from the DE social class - meaning

people in semi-skilled or unskilled labour, those in casual labour and pensioners. 

This includes Blaenau Gwent in Wales, which has the highest working class population in

Britain - 62 percent of voters here went for Leave.

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And just three of the top fifty areas DE class areas voted to Remain. Leicester, Liverpool

and Newham in London were statistical anomalies because they are big cities with a high

number of young voters. 

Leave vote (%)

DE

clas

s (%

)How working class people turned to Brexit

Brexit vote compared to proportion of those of DE social class; each pointrepresenting a local area

30 40 50 60 700

10

20

30

40

50

Source: ONS

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This is unsurprising, of course, given that leaving the EU is the policy on which Ukip was

built.

Nigel Farage, Ukip's leader, played a dominant role in the Brexit campaign, and his party's

record results in previous elections led in many ways to the referendum being held in the

first place.

Once more, you can spot their heartlands on the east coast - all ten regions with the

highest eurosceptic vote followed the coastline.

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Considering how the Leave campaign adopted immigration as one of its key arguments,

claiming that the current level of net migration is too high, it is unsurprising that the

Remain campaign resonated more strongly with Britain's immigrant population.

London, where immigration is massively higher than the rest of the country, voted

overwhelmingly to Remain - by 60 percent to 40.

But it's the areas in the South East and the East Midlands, where immigration has made a

bigger impact only recently, that Ukip and now the Leave campaign have most resonated

with.

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How did your area vote in the EU referendum?

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