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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 ...
The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum took place in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on 23 June 2016. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Membership of the European Union had been a topic of political debate in the United Kingdom since the country joined the European Communities (then commonly referred to as the "Common Market" by the British ...
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 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 ...
United Kingdom — 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 23 June 2016, 51.9% to leave, turnout 72.2% In February 2016, the Conservative government of David Cameron negotiated " a new settlement for Britain in the EU " which was then followed by a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union in the United Kingdom ...
A number of politicians, public figures, newspapers and magazines, businesses and other organisations endorsed either the United Kingdom remaining in the EU or the United Kingdom leaving the EU during the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.
The referendum on EU membership took place on 23 June 2016. Opinion polling for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum was ongoing in the months between the announcement of a referendum and the referendum polling day.
On 8 July 2016, and in response to the referendum result, The New European, was launched with an initial print run of 200,000. This is a national weekly newspaper aimed at people who voted to remain in the EU, which its editor felt had not been represented by the traditional media, and remains in print as of December 2017.