At some point in the early hours on Friday 6th May we will find out Cornwall's verdict on the question of whether or not to change the voting system for Parliamentary elections. County Hall officials tell me that once the ballot result, with counts at two locations (as for the general election) has been communicated to London, it will be announced locally.
This is potentially quite interesting, although perhaps not as interesting as I had first thought. Recalling the 1975 referendum on the Common Market, I set out to see how Cornwall voted 36 years ago. The answer is that 68.5% of people in Cornwall voted to stay in, 31.5% voted to come out and the turn-out in Cornwall was 66.8%. Almost exactly the same figures as for the rest of the country.
For some reason I had always thought Cornwall had been hostile to the Common Market - but clearly I was wrong. In fact, only Shetland, and the Western Isles, in Scotland, voted to leave.
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