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Londoners backed staying in the EU - but Britain voted for Brexit on a night of drama with huge ramifications.

Turnout was around two per cent down in the capital compared to the rest of the UK - in part due to torrential rain and transport problems in the south-east on polling day.

The Remain camp took 28 London boroughs with 2.2million votes.

The other five boroughs were taken by Leave, who secured 1.5million votes in the capital.

A full borough-by-borough list of results is available below.

Our reporters stationed at London's Guildhall, and counts at Islington, Tower Hamlets, and Wandsworth will be providing more detail as the result draws near.

The results:

Barking and Dagenham REMAIN 27,750; LEAVE 46,130

Barnet REMAIN 60823 LEAVE 39387

Bexley: REMAIN 47603 LEAVE 80886

Brent: REMAIN 72,523 LEAVE 48,881

Bromley: REMAIN 92,398 LEAVE 90,034

Camden: REMAIN 71,295 LEAVE 23,838

City of London: REMAIN 3,312 LEAVE 1,087

Croydon REMAIN 92913 LEAVE 78221

Ealing: REMAIN 90,024 LEAVE 59, 017

Enfield REMAIN 76,425 LEAVE 60,481

Greenwich REMAIN 65248 LEAVE 52117

Hackney: REMAIN 83398 LEAVE 22868

Hammersmith and Fulham REMAIN 56,188 LEAVE 24,054

Haringey: REMAIN 79,991 LEAVE 25,855

Harrow REMAIN 64042 LEAVE 53183

Havering: REMAIN 42,201; LEAVE 96,885

Hillingdon: REMAIN 58,040 LEAVE 74,982

Hounslow REMAIN 58755 LEAVE 56321

Islington: REMAIN 76,420 LEAVE 25,180

Kensington and Chelsea: REMAIN 37,601 LEAVE 17,138

Kingston upon Thames: REMAIN 52,533 LEAVE 32,737

Lambeth: REMAIN 111,584 LEAVE 30,340

Lewisham REMAIN 86995 LEAVE 37518

Merton: REMAIN 63,003 LEAVE 37,097

Newham REMAIN 55,328 LEAVE 49,371

Redbridge REMAIN 69213 LEAVE 59020

Richmond upon Thames: REMAIN 75,396 LEAVE 33,410

Southwark: REMAIN 94,293 LEAVE 35,209

Sutton REMAIN 49319 LEAVE 57241

Tower Hamlets: REMAIN 73,011 LEAVE 35,244

Waltham Forest: REMAIN 64,156 LEAVE 44,395

Wandsworth: REMAIN 118,463 LEAVE 39,421

Westminster REMAIN 53928 LEAVE 24268

The Guildhall

At the Guildhall - London's declaration centre - the capital's returning officer Barry Quirk has addressed the fifty journalists camped out in the main hall.

He said it is expected that four million Londoners voted in the referendum, from 5.4 million eligible voters.

He said: "We expect four million votes in London in this election. If that's the case, it's one of the highest there's ever been in London.

"We will be able to tell you what the total numbers are borough by borough.

"Then we can declare the result."

Verification will take 90 minutes per borough, according to Mr Quirk.

Predictions abound that London could declare at around 6am, but no one knows at this stage.

The first result is expected to be the City of London within the next hour.

Ben Morgan

Islington

At the Islington count, the main topic of conversation was whether Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would show up.

"If I had £5 for every time I had been asked if Corbyn was coming, I wouldn't need to work here anymore," said one Islington council worker.

"We don't know," said another. "Feeling is if he'd wanted to come he would have bothered showing up by now."

One Remain campaigner was a little more positive. "He's got a name badge on the accreditation desk," she gushed. "So you never know."

Police presence appeared high at the count, with five officers wandering around the Sobell Leisure centre, located a stone's throw from the Arsenal Stadium.

"It's anyone's guess," said Nick Turton, who the Remain camp were calling leader of the campaigning effort in their area. "He was with us earlier as was Caroline Lucas. He didn't say what he was planning. I'm doubtful."

Mr Turton said Remain were confident of a victory in Islington. "We are top five areas of voting Remain, so here we aren't worried. Elsewhere, another story."

Sitting nervously in a semi circle drinking cheap coffee from the vending machine and chatting to stay awake, Remain had a bleak outlook more generally.

"We have no idea. It's scary," Mr Turton added.

Islington recorded a 70.39 per cent turn out in the vote. As counting began, Paul Smith, Labour Councillor and one of the coordinators of the In effort said: "That's higher than the general election here," he said. "We will get about 75 per cent of the vote."

Emily Thornberry, MP for Islington South and Finsbury said: "In Islington the campaigning has been pretty boisterous. It's been good.

"There was a moment when we walked down Upper Street and 70 per cent of people were wearing In badges.

"This area is very safe. Generally it's quite close. I think the only response, whichever way it goes, is with some humility.

"The country is pretty divided on this.

"We do not need to have the show Cameron showed after the Scottish referendum."

Lizzie Edmonds

Wandsworth: 75 per cent for Remain

Two London MPs at the EU referendum count in Wandsworth tonight spoke of their “relief” at the campaign being over.

Conservative MPs Justine Greening and Jane Ellison both described a tiring campaign which has seen their party bitterly divided on the campaign trail.

They were at Wandsworth town hall where counting took place for both of their Putney and Battersea constituencies as well as Tooting.

Turnout in the south west London counting area was 71.98%, meaning 158,018 voted out of a possible 219,521. The postal vote turnout was 83.6 per cent.

Ms Greening, who is also International Development secretary and campaigned to Remain, said: “I think it’s not just a relief for people involved in the campaign, I think it’s a relief for most people in Britain that it’s finally come to an end.

“But I think for me one of the biggest and positive legacies is young people, so hundreds of thousands of young people voting for the first time tonight all over Britain, for me, is something I’ve been very passionate about and lots of people who have been registered but never voted before.

“I hope those people will realise through casting their vote for the first time that it feels very good to have your say and why not do it? And if you see young people coming through from the electorate, it may start to change the dynamics of our politics in a way that’s good.”

She said there have been a number of turning points in the campaign, including a controversial poster unveiled last week by UKIP leader Nigel Farage, featuring a line of migrants trying to get into Europe witht the words "breaking point", and the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.

She said: “The events of the last week around the Nigel Farage poster, just the awful event in our democracy of an MP being murdered, I think really just made people think.

“I sat in parliament and listened to lots of tributes to Jo Cox and my sense was that the biggest tribute we could pay to her work as an MP was to use our chance to have a vote.”

Paul Martin, returning officer and chief executive of Wandsworth Council, got the count underway just after 10.30pm when ballot boxes were emptied in front of counters at Wandsworth Town Hall. Counters were unfolding the papers and putting them into piles of 20 to be verified.

The result of the count was delayed because “some ballot boxes could be later than expected due to the weather” and took longer to travel from polling stations.

Ms Ellison, who also campaigned to Remain, said: “I think we’re quite glad the referendum’s at an end, certainly within my party it’s nice to get back to normal conversations about other issues and I think we’re all quite tired.

“It was nice to see young people, who perhaps weren’t so engaged with the general election last year, to be engaged for this. I’ve had youngsters saying they’re voting for the first time which has been fantastic to see.”

She added: “There were clearly some significant moments. I thought the [Farage} poster was disgusting and I wasn’t alone in having that reaction to it.

“I do regret that so much of the [Brexit] campaign has focused heavily on immigration and on the case of turkish membership - to see posters saying Turkey is joining the EU and then suggesting every Turkish citizen will move here I think was pretty irresponsible.

“It’s entirely legitimate for people to worry about immigration and the impact that might have on services, but ultimately there’s a different level of responsibility which is attached to a campaign around those issues because it always has the potential for some people to take it too far and it becomes vitriol at others.”

Several Remain campaigners wearing blue “In” t-shirts showing their support stood over the counters.

David Churchill

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