Plans to ditch the way Britain elects its MPs have been overwhelmingly rejected by voters.
More than two thirds of people in Portsmouth and across the country voted to keep the first-past-the-post system in what was the first UK-wide referendum since 1975.
The result was seen as a major coup for Conservative Party Leader David Cameron who campaigned hard against AV alongside many senior Conservative and Labour figures including Caroline Flint, David Blunket, David Davis and George Osborne.
The scale of the defeat was seen as another blow for Nick Clegg who suffered a bad set of local election results losing over 700 council seats.
The referendum was held as part of the Coalition Agreement between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
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