Keep the Clause campaign

The Keep the Clause campaign was a privately funded political campaign organised in 2000 with the aim of resisting the repeal of legislation known as Clause 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 in Scotland and the United Kingdom, which forbade local authorities to "intentionally promote homosexuality". (Clause 28 was known as Section 2A of the relevant Scottish legislation). The campaign involved the first privately funded referendum to take place across Scotland. The campaign was ultimately unsuccessful.

Keep the Clause campaign
Results
Choice
 Votes  %
Yes 1,094,440 86.80%
No 166,406 13.20%
Valid votes 1,260,846 99.11%
Invalid or blank votes 11,356 0.89%
Total votes 1,272,202 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 3,970,712 32.04%
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