Falklands vote 98.8% in favor of staying British

Falkland Islanders on March 11 voted overwhelmingly in favor of remaining a British oversees territory in a referendum designed to send a strong message to Argentina, which earlier derided the poll as illegal. Some 92% of the islands’ 1,672 eligible voters turned out to deliver a 98.8% “yes” vote in favor of staying an internally self-governing British territory, official figures revealed. Argentina, which invaded the islands in 1982 before its troops were ousted by a British task force after a short but bloody war, maintained its dismissive line on the vote.


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