- — Oceania:
Second independence referendum
Independence was again rejected, but by a narrower margin of about 53.3% to 46.7%, a closing gap that sharpened the political contest.
Era: Three Referendums and an Unsettled Future
Sources: New Caledonia — The United Nations and Decolonization · United Nations, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, New Caledonia — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- — Oceania:
Third referendum and Kanak boycott
The final referendum rejected independence by about 96% to 4%, but turnout was only ~44%: pro-independence parties and most Kanak voters boycotted after France declined to postpone the vote, and the two sides drew opposite conclusions about its legitimacy.
Era: Three Referendums and an Unsettled Future
Sources: New Caledonia — The United Nations and Decolonization · United Nations, Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, New Caledonia — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Independence in the 2020s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged independence — declarations, recognitions and transfers of sovereignty, narrowed to the 2020s — 2 of them, drawn from 1 nation, running from 2020 to 2021. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 2020
- Latest
- 2021
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.