[nomadking]

Originally Posted by ianch99

Nope: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-refer...atic-exercise/

Can we just drop the "we won, you lost" crap? This stuff is just designed to wind people up. We are where we are ..

But from your link

This is not correct, if you interpret “largest democratic exercise” as the number of people participating in a vote. 33,551,983 people cast a vote in the referendum—which was 72% of all people registered to vote.

Not all people registered to vote were eligible to vote in the referendum.
FullFact (or should that be Not Quite Full Fact

You can’t vote in the referendum if you’re under 18, even in Scotland, where people that age could vote in the independence referendum.
And you can’t vote if you’re an EU citizen living here, unless you’re from Ireland, Malta or Cyprus.

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More than three million citizens from other EU countries are eligible to vote in the European elections on 23 May, but the UK Government requires them to submit a voter declaration form in order to do so.

That changes the 72% turnout figure quite a bit.

Different elections/votes often have different eligibility criteria. EG Local elections vs election of MP.

Compare all this with the less than 7,000 in favour of a Welsh Assembly, with 50.3% vs 49.7% split, on a 50.1% turnout. Not exactly overwhelming.
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