# How the UK voted

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2016-06-24

brexit, britain, cities, eu, eu-referendum, london, northern-ireland, scotland, uncategorized, united-kingdom, urban, urbanism

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For some reason, I woke up extra early this morning, well before my alarm. As soon as I came to and noticed the time, I immediately reached for my phone to pull up Twitter and see what happened with the UK referendum. And frankly, I was shocked to see that they had voted to leave the EU. 

Once I saw what had happened, I then went to my computer and started looking for maps of the voting results. 

Here’s one from the [Guardian](http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2016/jun/23/eu-referendum-live-results-and-analysis):

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/bde5937c3f7df7a8c749febb4cfe88f1.png)

They also found that the best predictor of how people voted (with Scotland being a bit of an exception) was whether or not they had a degree. Residents with higher education were more likely to vote “remain.”

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4c7b0a0c6b045aaf1992b786581eadf2.png)

Here’s another vote map from the [Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/23/leave-or-remain-eu-referendum-results-and-live-maps/), broken down by 12 regions:

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/c005727d4dff13c6967391a0abff8f8f.png)

According to these regions, only Northern Ireland, Scotland, and London voted to remain. If we get a bit more granular though, the map turns into this:

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8a2e3845a1c37bbbd86f17b34772197a.png)

Not surprisingly, it is London and other big cities (remain) vs. the rest of England (leave). Here’s another case of urban divide.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/how-the-uk-voted)*