Timeline for Have there been any countries that voted themselves out of existence?
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| Jan 11, 2022 at 5:00 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Vermont and Texas. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 13:44 | comment | added | rexkogitans | German Democratic Republic joined Federal Republic of Germany in 1990. | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 11:22 | vote | accept | Allure | ||
| Sep 11, 2019 at 9:48 | answer | added | Rohit | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 11, 2019 at 5:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 11, 2019 at 5:10 | answer | added | Dale M | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 18:38 | history | protected | Pieter Geerkens | ||
| Sep 10, 2019 at 18:36 | answer | added | James Bradley | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 16:08 | answer | added | Piskvor | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 8:05 | answer | added | Oscar Bravo | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 5:40 | answer | added | Jan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 3:37 | comment | added | Allure | @Greg yes, public referendum (preferably not at gunpoint) into cessation of existence. Not interested in a single country breaking up. | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 3:35 | answer | added | Tim Andrews | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 10, 2019 at 3:28 | comment | added | Daniel | What about the 1707 merging of the English and Scottish parliaments or rather the absorption of the Scottish one into Westminster. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 19:13 | answer | added | Stefan Kögl | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1171121316004585472 | ||
| Sep 9, 2019 at 15:05 | comment | added | Roger | Unclear whether 'in-place replacements' -- like the USSR ceasing to exist -- are within scope or not. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 14:39 | comment | added | Russell McMahon | Your OZ/NZ example is backwards, but, we don't REALLY want them. A NZ Prime Minister once famously remarked on people who were leaving NZ for Australia in protest " ... thereby increasing the average IQ of both countries ." :-) | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 14:15 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | @axsvl77 - Yeah, I don't think I'd count "votes" that happened while the donor country was occupied by the military of the prospective recipient. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 13:24 | comment | added | TRiG | Australia wouldn't have to agree to NZ joining: NZ could do so unilaterally. The Australian constitution already allows for this. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 11:52 | answer | added | Radovan Garabík | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 10:22 | comment | added | Stuart F | Yemen is another possible case, when North and South Yemen merged. There wasn't an explicit vote prior to merging, but there was on a unified constitution for the new country. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_unification | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 9:46 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 9, 2019 at 9:13 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | @Bregalad Somehow it does. But: That is a bit of a stretch regarding plebiscites that needs a full answer to be argued in its favour (Saar would be less of a stretch for the voting conditions, but perhaps on sovereignty) | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 8:19 | comment | added | Bregalad | Austria in 1938 comes in mind. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 6:31 | comment | added | LаngLаngС | 'Britain joining the EU' (then EEC/EC but at least staying when it became EU, according to Brexiters)? | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 4:57 | comment | added | Greg | When you talk about a vote is it a public referendum focusing specifically and exclusively on the change of state? In a way, the breakup of Soviet Union, the Baltic States joining the SU (OK, just kidding), the break up of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the reunion of Germany, etc are cases when countries went out the existence and were politically supported by a large part of the population. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 4:41 | answer | added | jamesqf | timeline score: 27 | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 2:02 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | As noted in my answer below, Newfoundland was a Dominion from 1907 until 1933, when the Legislature voted the Dominion out of existence. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 1:52 | answer | added | Pieter Geerkens | timeline score: 71 | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 1:47 | answer | added | Chris Stratton | timeline score: 39 | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 1:40 | comment | added | Astor Florida | Crimea voted for its own independence, then voted to join Russia. IMO, this doesn't really count. | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 1:39 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Didn't Texas do exactly that? | |
| Sep 9, 2019 at 1:34 | history | asked | Allure | CC BY-SA 4.0 |