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Support for referendum on new EU treaty in Leeds suburb
Voters in Pudsey have backed a call for a referendum on the EU Constitution, say organisers of an independent poll.
The pressure group, I Want A Referendum, carried out polls in 10 constituencies across the country and found broadly the same results everywhere.
Some 152,520 voted across the 10 areas and 133,251 wanted a referendum.
In Pudsey, postal ballots were sent to nearly 38,000 people asking them if they wanted the referendum and if they supported the Lisbon Treaty; and 35.1 per cent were returned.
Of the 13,310 who voted, some 11,495 (86.4 per cent) wanted the referendum.
A spokesman for I Want A Referendum said: "A greater proportion of people in Pudsey voted for a referendum than voted for sitting MP Paul Truswell at the last election.
"And Pudsey voters resoundingly rejected the treaty – 11,716 or 88 per cent voted against it."
Paul Truswell is on record as saying he supported a referendum.
Pudsey had the third highest turn-out of the 10 constituencies, behind only East Renfrewshire and Somerton and Frome.
MPs vote tomorrow on a Tory amendment to the Bill to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, which would allow for many more decisions to be taken by the EU than by Westminster , says I Want A Referendum.
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