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UK portal. v. t. e. On 23 June 2016, a referendum took place in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to ask the electorate whether the country should remain a member of, or leave, the European Union (EU). The result was to leave, triggering calls to begin the process of the country's withdrawal from the EU commonly termed "Brexit".
2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (South East England) Choice Votes % Leave the European Union: 2,567,965: 51.78: Remain a member of the European Union: 2,391,718 48.22 Valid votes 4,959,683 99.93 Invalid or blank votes 3,427 0.07 Total votes: 4,963,110: 100.00: Registered voters/turnout 6,465,404 76.76 Source: Electoral ...
UK portal. v. t. e. The United Kingdom in orange; the European Union (27 member states) in blue: a representation of the result of Brexit. Brexit ( / ˈbrɛksɪt, ˈbrɛɡzɪt /; [ 1 ] portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Following a referendum held on 23 June 2016, Brexit ...
The UK's departure from the European Union led to two early general elections in 2017 and 2019, and dominated British politics until 31 January 2020, when the country's membership of the European Union ended. In September 2023, thousands of people participated in a march in London campaigning for the United Kingdom to rejoin the EU. [ 4]
The results of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum were not counted by parliamentary constituencies except in Northern Ireland. However, a number of local councils and districts released the referendum results by electoral ward or constituency, while in some cases constituency boundaries were coterminous with their ...
The result of the referendum was that 51.8% of the votes were in favour of leaving the European Union. The formal withdrawal from the EU took place at 23:00 on 31 January 2020, almost three years after Theresa May triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on 29 March 2017.
After the British EU membership referendum held on 23 June 2016, in which a majority voted to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom experienced political and economic upsets, with spillover effects across the rest of the European Union and the wider world. Prime Minister David Cameron, who had campaigned for Remain, announced his ...
At the time of the referendum in June 1975 the UK was just one of nine member states that made up the European Communities.. The United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, also known variously as the Referendum on the European Community (Common Market), the Common Market referendum and EEC membership referendum, took place under the provisions of the Referendum Act 1975 on 5 ...