Scotland has opted to stay in the United Kingdom after voters decisively rejected independence.
With the results in from all the 32 council areas, the “No” side won with 2,001,926 votes over 1,617,989 for “Yes.”
Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, called for unity and urged the unionist parties to deliver on more powers, the BBC reports.
UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, said he was delighted the UK would remain together and said the commitments on extra powers would be honoured.
Mr. Cameron said the three main unionist parties at Westminster would now follow through with their pledge of more powers for the Scottish Parliament.
“We will ensure that those commitments are honoured in full,” he said.
He announced that Lord Smith of Kelvin, who led Glasgow’s staging of the Commonwealth Games, would oversee the process to take forward the commitments, with new powers over tax, spending and welfare to be agreed by November, and draft legislation published by January.
The prime minister also acknowledged that the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland must have a bigger say over their affairs.
