Exeter office workers most pro-Brexit in survey

1,000 Office workers from Exeter have recently taken part in an EU referendum survey and the city was named as the most pro-brexit city on the list.

Office search engine FreeOfficeFinder asked 10,000 office workers across the country whether they wish to leave the EU, remain in the EU or whether they were unsure about it. The participants were from ten different UK cities (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Leicester, Bristol and Exeter) and the results varied massively between different locations.

Pro-Brexit

Exeter was the most pro-brexit city on the survey, with 501 out of the 1,000 office workers surveyed claiming that they will be voting to leave the EU. Only 362 participants from Exeter said they will be voting to remain, which is the least amount of pro-remain voters from any city on the survey. 137 out of the 1,000 office workers who took part from Exeter were unsure about which way they would vote.

As well as being the most pro-brexit city on the survey, Exeter was also the only city with more than 50% of its participants being pro-leave. The other two pro-brexit cities, Bristol and Leicester, had a pro-brexit turnout 45% and 47% respectively.

Exeter's pro-brexit stance went against the general mood of the survey, with 48% of all 10,000 participants deciding to vote remain, and only 36% being pro-brexit. However, 14% of all respondents were unsure, which mean if they all decide to vote to leave the EU the survey would swing in the favour of the vote leave camp.

Pro-Remain

London and Edinburgh were the most pro-remain cities on the survey, with 67% and 63% respectively. Liverpool, Leeds and Cardiff also had over 50% of its participants voting to remain as part of the European Union, whereas 49% of Birmingham's office workers wish to remain. Manchester, the closest city in the survey, only had 8 more votes to remain than they had for a brexit.

In the end, this survey shows that the general consensus is different in different places. London is home to many businesses who rely on EU trade, so naturally more people there will be in favour of remaining. It's telling that Bristol and Exeter, the only two cities in the south west of England, were both pro-brexit, and this could reflect on the entire region as a whole.