The ACT voted solidly for the republic yesterday.
At the close of the count last night, the ACT had voted 63.77 per cent in favour of the republic and 36.23 per cent against with a tiny 0.87 per cent informal.
It was the highest Yes vote by far of any state or territory.
The ACT also had the highest Yes vote of any state or territory for the preamble, at 43.15 per cent. As with every other state and territory it rejected the preamble.
The next highest Yes vote for the preamble was Victoria on 42.69.
The republic vote was the highest Yes vote recorded in the ACT since it was granted the right to vote in referendums in 1977.
In that time the ACT has voted Yes in four of eight referendums, none of which have been carried nationally.
But the ACT was not the only Yes hotspot last night. Parts of Sydney and Melbourne recorded similar Yes votes, but that vote was diluted statewide.
The two ACT federal electorates voted slightly differently. Fraser, which is a more Labor seat, voted about half a percentage point more Yes for the republic than in the seat of Canberra and voted one percentage point lower for the preamble.