Alternative Voting referendum 2011
Results of the referendum
The referendum on the voting system for UK parliamentary elections was held on 5 May 2011. You can find the voting results for Royal Greenwich on this page.
The question that voters were asked to vote on was:
At present, the UK uses the 'first past the post' system to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Should the 'alternative vote' system be used instead?
Results of count
A 'YES' vote is a vote in favour of the alternative vote system, while a 'NO' vote is a vote in favour of keeping the present 'first past the post' system.
The 'NO' vote received more ballots in Royal Greenwich.
- Turnout: 33.3 per cent
- Number of ballot papers counted: 52,657
- Number of 'YES' votes cast: 20,618
- Number of 'NO' votes cast: 32,039
- Number of rejected ballot papers: 91.
The number of ballot papers rejected can be broken down as follows:
- no official mark: 0
- voting for both answers to the question asked: 23
- writing or mark by which the voter could be identified: 3
- unmarked or void for uncertainty: 65.