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Colours in infobox are misleading

The 'Yes' and 'No' colours are displaying as pale blue for Yes and green for No, while the map shows all the provinces which voted Yes coloured solid green and the one which voted No solid red. Can someone please fix this? Moonraker (talk) 22:58, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wording of the referendum

User:Johnsc1277, here is a picture of the ballot paper right from the Government Gazette:

Please stop changing it to the wrong wording. - htonl (talk) 15:06, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another photo which shows the wording of the ballot (top center). And another. - htonl (talk) 15:12, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Htonl, It's or not for. Johnsc1277 (talk) 16:34, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why? How can you keep saying this when all the evidence proves you are wrong? - htonl (talk) 16:37, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, you are wrong. Johnsc1277 (talk) 16:56, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Htonl: Don't waste your time with this, this is clearly someone who doesn't want to hear or is simply a wind-up merchant. If they revert again, they'll probably be blocked. Number 57 16:58, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a wind up merchant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Johnsc1277 (talk) 17:20, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Results by electoral division

Referendum results by electoral division (parliamentary constituency) as published on the Government Gazette are now included in the article. The relevant table probably deserves its own article, but I will leave such task to others. Manuel Alvarez-Rivera (talk) 02:37, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Manuel Alvarez-Rivera: Thanks for adding them! One small issue – in the registered voters column, the total adds up to 1,800,425, which is one short of the actual total; I assume there must be a typo somewhere. Cheers, Number 57 10:44, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Number 57 You're welcome. The cited discrepancy is in Transvaal Province, where according to the Government Gazette there were a total of 818,047 registered voters, but the electoral division figures add up to 818,046. The same discrepancy is also present in the referendum results on page 113 of Dr. Heard's book, in which the Transvaal constituencies were grouped in four areas (Johannesburg, Witwatersrand, Pretoria and the rest of the province).
Incidentally, there's another error in the Government Gazette statistics: the total number of votes in Cape Province add up to 544,083 (both row- and column-wise), but the published figure was 554,083. Manuel Alvarez-Rivera (talk) 15:16, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks – I think it's worth adding a note to the constituency table to explain the discrepancy (which I've just done). Cheers, Number 57 18:45, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]