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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 ...
2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (East Midlands) Choice Votes % Leave the European Union: 1,475,479: 58.82: Remain a member of the European Union: 1,033,036 41.18 Valid votes 2,508,515 99.92 Invalid or blank votes 1,891 0.08 Total votes: 2,510,496: 100.00: Registered voters/turnout 3,384,299 74.18 Source: Electoral ...
First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, addresses the media in Bute House in the aftermath of Brexit, 2016. In the European Union membership referendum held on 23 June 2016, 52% of voters across the whole UK voted to leave the European Union, with 48% voting to remain; majorities in England and Wales were in favour of leaving the EU, with majorities ...
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 ...
During the 2014 referendum, a major argument against independence was that Scotland would be outside the EU. [citation needed] Scotland is very supportive of EU membership, with 62% voting to remain in the 2016 EU referendum. Since Brexit, many have called for a second independence referendum to have a chance to re-enter the EU. [179]
The European Union Referendum (Date of Referendum etc.) Regulations 2016 (No. 278) is a Statutory Instrument of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made legal provision under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 for the nationwide referendum to be held across the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on the issue of continued membership to the European Union on the appointed ...
At the referendum in 2014, 55% of voters had decided to remain in the UK, but the referendum on Britain's withdrawal from the EU was held in 2016, with 62% of Scottish voters against it. In March 2017, the Scottish Parliament voted in favour of holding another independence referendum.
11 April – The Government's EU referendum leaflet begins being delivered to every household in the UK. [9] 13 April – Lady Dorian is appointed as Lord Justice Clerk in Scotland, succeeding Lord Carloway. [18] She is the first woman to hold the post. [19] The Government's EU referendum leaflet reaches every household in the country. [9]