UK: Referendum day time table – Danske Bank

Research Team at Danske Bank, lists down the time table for the UK referendum voting on 23rd June.

Key Quotes

• “Polls will be open from 8am-11pm CEST (7am to 10pm BST) on Thursday, 23 June.
• It is illegal to publish any opinion/exit polls during the day as long polls are open for people to vote. Exit polls are allowed to be published as soon as the polling stations are closed, but there are currently no plans by broadcasters for an exit poll as the margin of error is deemed to be too large.
• However, Britain’s hedge fund industry is commissioning private exit polls to get an early warning of the result. Electoral Commission rules allow exit polls on the day of a referendum so long as they are not published until polls close at 11pm CEST.
• When polls are closed, local results will be declared as the counts are completed. The bulk of the results should be in somewhere between 3am-5am CEST (2am-4am BST) on Friday morning, depending on how quickly the votes are counted and how close the results are running.
• The BBC estimates that it should be possible to make a projection of the result sometime around 4am BST.
• The Electoral Commission, which is in charge of overseeing the referendum, estimates the final result will be announced at ‘breakfast time’ on Friday, 24 June.”