1991 Ukrainian sovereignty referendum
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Do you agree that Ukraine should be part of a Union of Soviet Sovereign States on the basis on the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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A sovereignty referendum was held in the
The referendum followed the Declaration of State Sovereignty by the republic's parliament on 16 July 1990 as sovereign republic within the Soviet Union in line with the results.[1]
In August 1991, with the New Union Treaty having not been adopted by the Soviet Union, a withdrawal from the USSR was proposed. The overwhelming majority of voters backed the idea in an independence referendum in December, approving a declaration of independence.[2]
Republic-wide
Throughout the entire Soviet Union, citizens were first asked:
Do you consider necessary the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a
renewed federation of equal sovereign republics in which the rights and freedom of an individual of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?[3]
A boycott campaign reduced the against votes in Western Ukraine.[4]
Choice | Votes | % | |
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For | 22,110,899 | 71.48 | |
Against | 8,820,089 | 28.52 | |
Total | 30,930,988 | 100.00 | |
Valid votes | 30,930,988 | 98.15 | |
Invalid/blank votes | 583,256 | 1.85 | |
Total votes | 31,514,244 | 100.00 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 37,732,178 | 83.52 |
The Ukrainian SSR included an additional question for all of the republic's citizens; the voters were asked:
Do you agree that Ukraine should be part of a
Union of Soviet Sovereign States on the basis on the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine?[5]
Choice | Votes | % | |
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For | 25,224,687 | 81.69 | |
Against | 5,655,701 | 18.31 | |
Total | 30,880,388 | 100.00 | |
Valid votes | 30,880,388 | 98.14 | |
Invalid/blank votes | 584,703 | 1.86 | |
Total votes | 31,465,091 | 100.00 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 37,689,767 | 83.48 |
Provincial
In the Galician provinces of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Ternopil, voters were asked an additional question regarding the creation of an independent state of Ukraine:[6][7]
Do you want the Ukraine to become an independent state that by itself decides all questions of domestic and foreign policy, secures equal rights of citizens regardless of their ethnic or religious affiliation?[8]
Choice | Votes | % | |
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For | 88.3 | ||
Against | 11.7 | ||
Total | |||
Source: Katchanovski[9] |
References
- ISBN 978-0-88132-427-3(page 21)
- ^ Independence – over 90% vote yes in referendum; Kravchuk elected president of Ukraine Archived 2017-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, The Ukrainian Weekly (8 December 1991)
- ISBN 0-19-924958-X
- ISBN 0-521-57457-9(page 127)
- ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ISBN 0742524523(134)
- ISBN 0674050010, (page 4)
- ^ Zvi Y. Gitelman (1992). Politics of Nationality and the Erosion of the USSR. p. 218.
- ISBN 389821558X(page 40)