Catalan self-determination referendum, 2014
| a) Do you want Catalonia to become a State? (Yes/No); If the answer is in the affirmative: b) Do you want this State to be independent? (Yes/No). |
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Referendum results by district where saturation of colour represents the strength of vote. 'Yes-Yes' is represented in green. Dark represents >75%, light <75%. Turnout is not taken into account.
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| Location | Catalonia, Spain |
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| Date | 9 November 2014 |
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| Website: [1] | |
The "Citizen Participation Process on the Political Future of Catalonia" was a non-binding vote on the political future of Catalonia that was held by the Government of Catalonia on 9 November 2014. While also referred to as "Catalan independence referendum", the vote was rebranded as a "participation process" by the Government of Catalonia, after a "non-referendum popular consultation" on the same topic and for the same date had been suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain.
The ballot papers carried two questions: "Do you want Catalonia to become a State?" and "Do you want this State to be independent?" The second question could only be answered by those who had answered Yes to the first one. The Catalan government gave notice on 10 November, the day after voting, that 2,305,290 votes had been cast overall, but it did not provide a percentage figure for the turnout. Estimates for the turnout as published by the news media ranged from 37.0%, as given in The Economist and El País among others, to 41.6% as per the Catalan government's preliminary data. 80.8% of the cast votes supported the Yes-Yes option, 10.1% the Yes-No, 4.5% the No option, indicating that the poll was widely boycotted by Catalan voters who oppose independence.
Minors aged 16 and 17, and also all non-Spanish residents, were allowed to vote, which in a referendum held according to Spanish law would not have been possible.
Holding a referendum about the "political future of Catalonia" in 2014 was one of the items of the governance agreement ratified by Artur Mas from Convergence and Union (CiU) and Oriol Junqueras from Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) on 18 December 2012, that allowed Artur Mas to be voted in as President of the Generalitat of Catalonia for a second term.
On 19 September 2014, the Catalan parliament approved a call for a referendum on independence. Eight days later Artur Mas announced that the vote was to be held on 9 November 2014. The same day the Spanish government announced that it would block the effort by appealing to the Constitutional Court of Spain. The Court decided to hear the Spanish government's case on 29 September 2014, and provisionally suspended the vote. The Catalan Government subsequently announced the "temporary suspension" of the referendum campaign.
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