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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wales-says-yes-in-first-results.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="People across Wales turned out to cast their vote in a referendum on Welsh Assembly powers" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-wales-says-yes-in-first-results.jpg" alt="People across Wales turned out to cast their vote in a referendum on Welsh Assembly powers"/></a></p>
<p>Yes campaigners have celebrated the first victory of the day in the referendum on giving new law-making powers to the Welsh Assembly.</p>
<p>Blaenau Gwent voted &#8220;Yes&#8221; to the tune of 11,869, with the &#8220;No&#8221; vote trailing at 5,366 votes.</p>
<p>The positive outcome in the first of 22 county area results was quickly followed by Denbighshire, with 15,793 Yes votes against 9,734 for the No campaign.</p>
<p>The first result was declared at the Senedd in Cardiff just before midday, following the start of the count at around 9am. Later Wales&#8217; second city Swansea saw 38,496 voting Yes and 22,409 No.</p>
<p>Just after 2pm the Yes vote had passed the halfway mark with its 100% record intact &#8211; with 17 out of 17 declared results being in favour of the principality having direct law making powers.</p>
<p>The figures are in keeping with the most recent YouGov poll, which predicted that Yes voters outnumbered their No counterparts by 2 to 1.</p>
<p>Turnout was announced as being 35.2% &#8211; a reduction of more than 20 percentage points compared with the 1997 referendum.</p>
<p>Following two further successes &#8211; in Wrexham and the Isle of Anglesey &#8211; at around 1.10pm on Friday, Say Yes For Wales described the signs as very encouraging.</p>
<p>Vice chair Lee Waters said: &#8220;We are pleased with the turnout, which is better than people had predicted and more than the last mayoral elections in London.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we will be celebrating a Yes win tonight.&#8221;</p>
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