Scottish voters have rejected independence from Britain after a referendum threatened to severe ties between Scotland and the Union which has been in existence for over 307 years, a New York Times report shows.
After a night of vote counting, results seem to favour maintaining the union with deputy head of the pro-independence Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon conceding defeat for the ‘Yes” campaigners who had pushed for secession from the union.
“Like thousands of others across the country I’ve put my heart and soul into this campaign and there is a real sense of disappointment that we’ve fallen narrowly short of securing a yes vote,” Ms. Sturgeon told BBC television.
After results were collated for 26 of the 32 voting districts, results show 54.2% or 1,397,077 against independence, as against 1,176,952, votes 45.7 %, in favor.
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SLIDESHOW: A LOOK Inside Scotland’s Independence Vote (PHOTOS)
Yes and No campaign signs on a lamppost in Blantyre. (Photo Credit: The Guardian/Murdo MacLeod)
Photo Credit: Jill Lawless/AP
Differing opinions at a home in Burnmouth. (Photo Credit: Lesley Martin / AFP / Getty Images)
A farm vehicle in Duns. (Photo Credit: Lesley Martin / AFP / Getty Images)
At Steel Engineering in Renfrew. (Photo Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
A rally in Glasgow. (Photo Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
Mugs at the Better Together campaign office in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
A campaigner in Pilton. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy /Getty Images)
Students in Aberdeen. (Photo Credit: Andy Rain / EPA)
A tattoo in Glasgow. (Photo Copy: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Foam fingers in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Lesley Martin / AFP / Getty Images)
A dog in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images)
Fingernails in Renfrew. (Photo Credit: Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images)
In a pub in Glasgow. (Photo Credit: Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Images)
People in traditional highland dress in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images)
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond poses for photographs with school children after casting his ballot at Ritchie Hall in Strichen, Scotland, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: AP/Scott Heppell)
A man arrives to cast his ballot at Ritchie Hall in Strichen, Scotland, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: AP/Scott Heppell)
A dog wearing a pro-independence 'Yes' bandana is walked on a street in Glasgow, Scotland, on polling day for a referendum on Scotland's independence, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Ian MacNicol/AFP/Getty Images)
A house in east Glasgow, Scotland, is decorated with a pro-independence slogan, on Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images)
Painters paint over Yes graffiti at Jamestown Parish Church Lennox Hall on Sept. 18, 2014 in Jamestown, Scotland. (Photo Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Yes supporters react to motorists passing the Church Hill Theatre polling place in Morningside, Edinburgh on Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Voters at Notre Dame Primary School polling station in Glasgow, Scotland on Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Mark Runnacles/Getty Images)
Voters leave a polling place in Morningside, Edinburgh on Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
A voter holds up his polling card outside a polling place in Morningside, Edinburgh on Sept.18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
Former Gordon Highlander Jock Robertson, 81, pauses at a polling station after voting in the Scottish referendum on Sept. 18, 2014 in Peebles, Scotland. (Photo Credit: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
A pro-union campaigner waits to distribute leaflets to voters at a polling station in west Glasgow, Scotland, on polling day for a referendum on Scotland's independence, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo Credit: Ian MacNicol/AFP/Getty Images)
Pro-independence and pro-union campaigners are pictured outside a polling station in east Glasgow, Scotland, on Sept. 18, 2014, during a referendum on Scotland's independence. (Photo Credit: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images)
Voters walk outside a polling station in Edinburgh on Sept. 18, 2014, during Scotland's independence referendum. (Photo Credit: LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond (front C) poses with supporters of the 'Yes Campaign', in Edinburgh, Scotland September 9, 2014. (Photo Credit: REUTERS/Russell Cheyne)
Two jockeys at the Musselburgh Racecourse in Edinburgh. (Photo Credit: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images)
On one hand, the result preserved the union formed in 1707, on the other it has left Mr. Cameron facing criticism from fellow Conservative Party lawmakers who expressed displeasure over pledges of more Scottish autonomy made by him and other party leaders a few days before the, when the threat of independence seems to be very real, with several lawmakers calling for similar autonomy for England, including the creation of a separate English parliament.
Following earlier signs that the “Yes” campaign was having the upper hand, three major political parties in the London Westminster parliament began promising to extend significant new powers to Scottish taxation, which many English voters grumbling that it favoured Scots with a higher per-capita contribution.
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