Riverina Votes Yes to Same Sex Marriage

55% Yes, 45% No

2017-11-15T00:02:31Z

Riverina residents have returned a 'yes' result in the Same Sex Marriage postal vote, with 55% of locals who returned their survey voting in favour of changing the law to allow same sex people to marry, while 45% voted against.

That's in contrast to the national result, which returned a 61.6% 'yes' result.

Here in our region, a greater percentage of over 65s returned their paper than any other age group, at 88%, while the lowest return was from the 18-24s, at 65%.