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Wigan: 104,331 people elected to leave with 58, 942 opting to remain.

The governing Conservative Party last won a parliamentary election in Wigan in 1910.

Wigan is a place
where it rains inside
the trains.

Where soul boys danced
through amphetamine sweat.
Dip your finger, place your bet.

Where the chips 
drown and no one 
comes around.

Where Uncle Joe lost 
his balls for the small
price of Boris’s battle bus.

Wigan is a wanderer. 
No pier, no miners. 
A northern slander here. 

The hopeless, homeless
and homespun. Wigan’s 
red flag fraying flaccid here.