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Hedra42 on 24 June 2016
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SvennoJ said:
Soundwave said:

Well I will say this, looking at the exit polls it looks like it if was just people 65 or younger voting, the "Remain" side would've won fairly easily. 

It's people 65 and over that tilted the scales ... and I have to question whether or not people, many of whom are likely to be dead in 10-15 years have the right to change the future of a country that they won't be living in pretty soon. 

Indeed, this picture says it all


Now I wonder what percentage of each age group turned out to vote.
With an important decision like this with results this close, a re vote should be in order.

I posted most of these facts in response to that picture already:

First, there was no exit poll.

Second, this picture is extrapolated from a poll of 1652 people on 17th-19th June. And we all know the way VGChartz works. :P

Demographic polls showed the profile of a Remain voter was most likely a 24 year old female graduate living in Scotland, while the profile of a typical Leave voter was a 60 year old male skilled labourer living in East Anglia.

It wasn't so much the age of people but their distribution that was remarkable in this vote - the Remains were predominantly in London or in Scotland. Interestingly, the turnouts in Scotland were  67% which was below the average UK turnout of 72%, and significantly below the Scottish Independence referendum, when 84% turned out.

Lots of people didn't vote because they were rolling around in mud in Glastonbury. Lots of other people didn't vote because they were wading around their flooded homes.

Could Glastonbury and the bad weather have made a difference? If more Scottish voters turned out, would it have made a difference? If Northern Ireland, Wales or England had been playing in the Euro football that evening, would that have made a difference?

Who knows...