European Parliament elections are currently due to be held in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar in 2019 as part of the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections. In June 2016 a referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union resulted in a vote favour of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. In October 2016 the new Prime Minister Theresa May announced that she would trigger article 50 by March 2017, As a country takes two years to leave the EU after triggering article 50, this means that the UK would in most likeliness no longer be a member of the European Union before the planned elections in 2019.