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What factors affected the voting pattern in the Brexit referendum?

Green, Ellen LU and Bergman, Emma LU (2022) NEKH03 20212
Department of Economics
Abstract
Though the Treasury stated that leaving the EU would lead to high economic costs for the UK, people still voted to leave. Since the referendum was held, many researchers have tried to explain what factors influenced the outcome of the vote. The aim of this dissertation is to further contribute to the existing research.

This will be done by analysing variables based on demographic, as well as economic factors, through cross-sectional data from the 133 NUTS 3 regions in England. They will be used in a bivariate analysis and a multivariate analysis as well as a multivariate analysis with robust standard errors in relation to the dependent variable share of votes in favour of leaving.

The results of the analysis showed significant... (More)
Though the Treasury stated that leaving the EU would lead to high economic costs for the UK, people still voted to leave. Since the referendum was held, many researchers have tried to explain what factors influenced the outcome of the vote. The aim of this dissertation is to further contribute to the existing research.

This will be done by analysing variables based on demographic, as well as economic factors, through cross-sectional data from the 133 NUTS 3 regions in England. They will be used in a bivariate analysis and a multivariate analysis as well as a multivariate analysis with robust standard errors in relation to the dependent variable share of votes in favour of leaving.

The results of the analysis showed significant results for age, people working in the exporting industry and GDHI. When the regression was run without robust standard errors, voting turnout was also found to be a significant variable. (Less)
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author
Green, Ellen LU and Bergman, Emma LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKH03 20212
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Brexit, OLS, voting pattern
language
English
id
9074372
date added to LUP
2022-02-03 08:17:24
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2022-02-03 08:17:24
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  abstract     = {{Though the Treasury stated that leaving the EU would lead to high economic costs for the UK, people still voted to leave. Since the referendum was held, many researchers have tried to explain what factors influenced the outcome of the vote. The aim of this dissertation is to further contribute to the existing research.

This will be done by analysing variables based on demographic, as well as economic factors, through cross-sectional data from the 133 NUTS 3 regions in England. They will be used in a bivariate analysis and a multivariate analysis as well as a multivariate analysis with robust standard errors in relation to the dependent variable share of votes in favour of leaving.

The results of the analysis showed significant results for age, people working in the exporting industry and GDHI. When the regression was run without robust standard errors, voting turnout was also found to be a significant variable.}},
  author       = {{Green, Ellen and Bergman, Emma}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{What factors affected the voting pattern in the Brexit referendum?}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}