How did Scotland vote in the 2016 referendum to leave the EU?
Scotland voted clearly to stay in the EU, but the entire UK voted to exit. In Scotland, over 2.6 million people voted. About 1.66 million of them wanted to stay, which is 62% of the total votes.
Most ‘remain’ areas in Scotland:
Edinburgh: 74.4% remain
East Renfrewshire: 74.3% remain
East Dunbartonshire: 71.4% remain
Least ‘remain’ areas in Scotland:
Moray: 50.1% remain (122 votes between the two sides)
Dumfries and Galloway: 53.1% remain
Aberdeenshire, the Western Isles and Angus: 55% remain
From a UK-wide perspective, 51.9% voted to leave the EU:
Most ‘leave’ areas across UK:
West Midlands: 59.3% leave
East Midlands: 58.8% leave
North East: 58.0% leave
Most ‘remain’ areas across UK (excluding Scotland):
Gibraltar: 96% remain
London: 28/33 boroughs voted to remain (59.9% all boroughs combined, in some boroughs the vote was over 70%)
Northern Ireland: 55.8% remain (in one area the vote was over 75%)
