Could One Direction be as big as Take That?

Almost nobody who voted Yes was a man: just 54 of 1,379 identified voters, or 4%. The No camp, tiny as it was, drew a very different room — better than one in five voters there was male. Same poll, same fandom, two audiences with almost nothing in common.

The margin itself barely moved in 379 days: Yes opened at 86% on day one and only climbed from there, closing at 93.5% of 3,222 votes. The UK supplied the single biggest bloc, 138 votes, and it leaned Yes like everywhere else — this was a verdict, not a debate.

• Gender split · Yes voters were 96% female; No's crowd hit 22% male
• Rock-solid margin · Yes never dipped below 86% across all 379 days
• UK anchors it · 138 UK votes, the biggest country bloc, leaned Yes
• Fan-free contest · Just 11 self-identified fans voted at all, all for Yes