According to Nytimes;
With a sweeping majority far wider than had been forecast, voters in Scotland rejected independence from Britain in a referendum that had threatened to break up a 307-year union, according to an official count on Friday from almost all voting areas.
The outcome came as a bitter blow to those who had campaigned with mounting passion in a hard-fought campaign spanning two years but reaching back into centuries of shared history. The result also showed the depth of Scottish support for secession, with 45 percent of voters backing the creation of a sovereign state.
While opinion surveys before the vote had forecast a contest too close to call, the "no" campaign opposed to independence secured some 55 percent of the ballot, according to near-complete results, swinging the United Kingdom back from what pro-independence campaigners had depicted as the cusp of a historic breakup with incalculable consequences for Britain’s place in the world.
“The people of Scotland have spoken and it is a clear result,” Prime Minister David Cameron said, speaking outside 10 Downing Street in London. "They have kept our country of four nations together. As I said during the campaign it would have broken my heart to see our United Kingdom come to an end."
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