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It was the first nationwide referendum to be held for some thirty six years and was legislated for under the provisions of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 and the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 and is to date the first and only UK-wide referendum to be held on a domestic issue. Turnout was low ...
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 Act brought together two different constitutional aims of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition: . The Liberal Democrats had long promoted an alternative to first-past-the-post elections [3] and so the Act legislated for the holding of a national referendum on whether to introduce the Alternative Vote system for the UK Parliament in all future general elections.
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 ...
The first referendum held in Costa Rica was October 7, 2007, to approve or reject the free trade agreement with Central America, Dominican Republic (Costa Rica already has FTAs with the latter) and the United States known as the Dominican Republic – Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA). It was very narrowly approved (49.030 votes).
On 29 October 2004, the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw ruled out holding a referendum in 2005 as this would have coincided with the UK holding the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. [4] He said that the referendum would be held in early 2006, providing Labour were re-elected in the 2005 general election.
The second wave of leaflets were delivered to households in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland after their devolved government elections, in the week beginning 9 May. [18] The Brexit referendum was held on 23 June, with 51.89% of the votes cast being in favour of leaving the EU. [19]
The Referendums (Wales and Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 61) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which made legal provision for the holding of two non-binding referendums in both Scotland on the establishment of a democratically elected Scottish Parliament with tax-varying powers and in Wales on the establishment of a democratically elected Welsh Assembly.