Sentence examples for referendum counts from inspiring English sources

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Scotland's first minister, Alex Salmond, will be residing overnight at his home in the north east of Aberdeenshire, rather than coming to one of the referendum counts nearby.

Alarmed by the protests, the NUJ has pressed BBC executives in Scotland to step up security with police to protect BBC journalists during voting and the referendum counts on Thursday, as concerns mounted they could be the focus of abuse or intimidation.

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In March, the Coordinadora held an unofficial referendum, counted nearly fifty thousand votes, and announced that ninety-six per cent favored the cancellation of the contract with Aguas del Tunari.

Even before the first election results had come in – and before the AV referendum count had begun – the recriminations had started.

Cameron and George Osborne were so nervous about a yes vote, which would have thrown his premiership into a potentially fatal crisis, that camp beds were laid on for senior officials in Downing Street on the night of the referendum count.

Clearly anticipating defeat, Mr Prescott stayed away from the referendum count at Sunderland's Crowtree Leisure Centre and hid away at a university library in readiness for a press conference to be held at 2am.

The analysis includes a Guardian map that publishes seat-by-seat data for the yes vote in each constituency, supplied where it is available by local council referendum count officers, and measures it against the majorities held by Labour in those key seats.

A Labour councillor has been told to apologise after a tussle with security staff at last year's EU referendum count.

In a separate incident, officials at the referendum count in Glasgow have been investigating 10 cases of suspected electoral fraud at polling stations.

It even passed a decree in the hope of nullifying one of the referendum's counts.

It mapped the Brexit result on parliamentary constituencies (the referendum was counted on local authority boundaries) and concluded that in a general election, leave would win nearly twice as many seats as remain.

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