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The electorate voted to "Leave the European Union", with a majority of 1,269,501 votes (3.8%) over those who voted "Remain a member of the European Union". [308] The national turnout of 72% was the highest ever for a UK-wide referendum, and the highest for any national vote since the 1992 general election .
On 18 July 2016, Bloomberg News reported that the UK's vote to leave the EU was having a negative impact on the Republic of Ireland, a country with close economic and cultural ties to the UK. Share prices in Ireland fell after the result, while exporters warned that a weaker British currency would drive down wages and economic growth in a ...
On 24 June 2016, the recorded result was that the UK voted to leave the European Union by 51.89% for Leave to 48.11% for Remain, a margin of 3.78%. This corresponded to 17,410,742 votes to leave and 16,141,241 to remain, a margin of 1,269,501 votes.
It achieved third place in the UK during the 2004 European elections, second place in the 2009 European elections and first place in the 2014 European elections, with 27.5% of the total vote. This was the first time since the 1910 general election that any party other than the Labour or Conservative parties had taken the largest share of the ...
23 June – The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum is held in the UK and Gibraltar, the first of its kind since the 1975 referendum on the UK's membership of the then European Economic Community. [21] 24 June The United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union in a vote of 51.9% to 48.1%, in a record voting turnout of 72% ...
Javier Solana, former Secretary-General of NATO (1995–99) and former Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union (1999–2009) [109] Donald Tusk, President of the European Council. [98] Yanis Varoufakis former Minister of Finance of Greece [118] Guy Verhofstadt MEP, chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group [98]
UK Prime Minister Theresa May meets with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker with in Brussels, Belgium, 21 October 2016. Following the result of the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum , when 52 percent of those who voted supported ' Brexit ' (a blend of "British exit"), the UK negotiated its withdrawal ...
The 2015–2016 United Kingdom renegotiation of European Union membership was an unimplemented non-binding package of changes to the United Kingdom's terms of its European Union (EU) membership as a member state and changes to EU rules which were first proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron in January 2013, with negotiations beginning in the ...