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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by chrisseaton on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:24AM (#19450637)
Has any vote ever been won by a majority of the entire population, eligible to vote or not? If that’s the standard you’re after nothing would ever pass and no government would ever be formed. Seems an unreasonable bar to set, to me.
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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by Zenst on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:47AM (#19450796)
Not in the UK, indeed the largest voter turnout of any election/referendum in the UK was...the EU referendum. Making it the largest vote for a decision in the entire history of the UK.

So best described currently as `interesting times`.

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by ranko on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:55AM (#19450841)
I keep hearing this claim, but I don't think it's true.

"The highest turnout recorded at a UK general election over the last 100 years was in 1950, 83.9%.", according to https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Sum...

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by chrisseaton on Thursday March 21, 2019 @07:52AM (#19451215)
Are you arguing relatively while others argue absolutely?
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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by ranko on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:16AM (#19451411)
Turnout is normally given as a percentage, I think.

Either way, the 1992 general election had a turnout of 77.7% or 33,614,074, both of were larger than the EU referendum.

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Re:UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for pe... by _Codemonkeyism on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:39AM (#19450742)
Sure the "50M didn't vote for Brexit" is BS as is the "but the 17M" with such a tiny margin of pro-Brexit votes.

Implicitly agreeing to the "but the 17M" frame, the Remainers lost the public discussion.

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