Ukrainian referendum, 1991

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The Referendum took place in Ukraine on December 1, 1991. The only question of the referendum was: "Do you support the Act of Independence of Ukraine?" with text of Act printed first. The referendum was called by the Parliament of Ukraine to confirm the Act of Independence, which was adopted by the Parliament on August 26, 1991.

Citizens of Ukraine expressed overwhelming support for independence. In the referendum, 31,891,742 (or 84.18%) registered voters took part, and among them 28,804,071 (or 90.32%) voted "Yes".

On the same day, the presidential election took place, in which Ukrainians elected Leonid Kravchuk (head of parliament at this time) to serve as the President of Ukraine.

[edit] Referendum results by regions

The Act of Independence was supported by citizens of all 27 administrative regions of Ukraine: 24 Oblasts, 1 Autonomous Republic, and 2 Cities with Special Status.

Subdivision	Voted "Yes", %
Autonomous Republic of Crimea	54.19
Cherkasy Oblast	96.03
Chernihiv Oblast	93.74
Chernivtsi Oblast	92.78
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	90.86
Donetsk Oblast	76.85
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	95.81
Kharkiv Oblast	75.83
Kherson Oblast	90.13
Khmelnytskyi Oblast	96.30
Kiev Oblast	95.52
Kirovohrad Oblast	93.88
Luhansk Oblast	83.86
Lviv Oblast	97.46
Mykolayiv Oblast	89.45
Odessa Oblast	85.38
Poltava Oblast	94.93
Rivne Oblast	95.96
Sumy Oblast	92.61
Ternopil Oblast	98.67
Vinnytsia Oblast	95.43
Volyn Oblast	96.32
Zakarpattia Oblast	92.59
Zaporizhzhia Oblast	80.74
Zhytomyr Oblast	95.06
Kiev City	92.87
Sevastopol City	57.07