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The Government of the United Kingdom has also to date held ten major referendums within the constituent countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on issues of devolution, sovereignty and independence; the first such referendum was the 1973 Northern Ireland border poll and, as of 2023, the most recent is the 2014 Scottish ...
United Kingdom European Constitution referendum; European Union (Referendum) Bill 2013–14; European Union Withdrawal Agreement (Public Vote) Bill 2017–19; Terms of Withdrawal from EU (Referendum) Bills; European Union Bill 2004–2005; European Union Referendum (Conduct) Regulations 2016; European Union Referendum (Date of Referendum etc ...
In all states, there is now a general right for referendums on statewide popular initiatives, which was used in Hamburg to push the state government to pass a law on a facultative binding state referendum in 2007. Most states have a form of non-binding ballot question (Volksbefragung, "people's inquiry") which has rarely been used - the most ...
As of October 2021, there have been 54 referendums on the question of changing executive arrangements to a model with a directly elected mayor. Of these, 17 have resulted in the establishment of a new mayoralty and 37 have been rejected by voters. Referendums are triggered by council resolution, local petition or central government intervention.
The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 to ask the electorate whether the country should continue to ...
Scottish devolution referendum 1997: Welsh devolution referendum 1997: Greater London Authority referendum 1998: NI Good Friday Agreement referendum 1998: NE England devolution referendum 2004: Welsh devolution referendum 2011: Alternative Vote referendum 2011: Scottish independence referendum 2014: EU membership referendum 2016 * UK-wide ...
Euroscepticism in the UK. UK opinion polling on EU membership; Campaigns for a referendum People's Pledge; Labour for a Referendum; Bloomberg speech; In or Out; 2013–14 EU (Referendum) Bill (unsuccessful) 2014 European Parliament election; 2014 UK Parliament by-elections. Clacton; Heywood and Middleton; Rochester and Strood; 2015 UK general ...
Pages in category "Referendums in England" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.