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by Quarrelsome 1275 days ago
Two points of note to add:

1. regulations around referendums (compared to general elections) are very poor and the "no to AV" campaign exploited this by running an extremely dishonest campaign [1]

2. turnout was < 50% of the electorate so one can somewhat facetiously imply from the result that the majority of the electorate don't care what the system is.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/25/no-to-...