Should the UK shift more homes and industry from gas to electricity to cut bills?

Voters here answered the electrification question the way engineers might: with the young enthusiastic and the near-retired sceptical. The under-35s came out for the switch almost to a person, while the 55-64s split the other way entirely, the one bloc where No actually beat Yes.

That fracture reads less like ideology than exposure to cost. Younger voters, further from fixed incomes and boiler-replacement bills, could wave through a 35% saving on SSE's projections without flinching; those closer to retirement, wary of the upfront grid spend the critics flagged, held back. Men backed the shift more readily than women, though both sides ended up comfortably in favour.

The result sits squarely on the net-zero fault line that has divided Westminster for years: the promise of cheaper, homegrown power against the near-term cost of the transition that gets you there. Here, at least, the future savings argument carried the day, even if the oldest voters weren't fully persuaded to pay for it.

A vote for electrification, with the electorate's own retirement-age contingent supplying the dissent.