TOMORROW marks the 10th anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum which split Inverclyde down the middle - but how would you vote today?
On September 18, 2014, the nation went to the polls to decide if Scotland should be independent from the United Kingdom.
Across Inverclyde more than 54,000 people cast their vote and made their voices heard.
The area voted against Scottish Independence but it was by the slimmest margin in the entire country.
There were just 86 ballots separating the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ votes when returning office John Mundell declared the results.
Yes votes were 27,243 and No votes were 27,329, with 29 ballot papers being rejected.
Delight was shared amongst campaigners about the turnout of 87.4 per cent.
Places like Branchton were said to be just short of a full house and Gourock and Larkfield both above 90 per cent, while upper Port Glasgow and Kilmacolm were also said to around the 80-85 per cent mark.
Today the Telegraph is asking readers how they would vote today.
Frankie Caldwell, Better Together’s local leader in Inverclyde, said after the result: “It was an exhilarating time waiting on the result to come through and it was nerve wracking because it was two years of hard work and effort on the streets and it came down to less than 100 votes.
“It isn’t the way we would have liked to have won but hard work and effort paid off to get that result and those extra 80-plus votes.
“But it just shows you that you can’t take anything for granted in politics now and there’s a different political landscape for Scotland and we need to take stock, analyse the result and then see what happens from here.
“I’ve always maintained throughout the whole of these two years, and especially over the last couple of weeks, that the best thing for Inverclyde no matter what the result would have been would be to pull together and unify to make sure that Inverclyde doesn’t have any hangovers from this referendum.
“We need to work forward, pull the community together and capitalise on what’s been gained here and that is the massive turnout of the vote and people who never engaged in politics.
“We need to make the most of that.”
Ronnie Cowan, leader of the Yes Inverclyde campaign, was emotional after the hammer blow result.
He said: “What I’ve said to all the guys in our camp is we know the hardcore team we had working can look ourselves in the mirror every single day for the rest of our lives knowing we did everything we possibly can—that’s all you can do.”
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