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A referendum on becoming an overseas department of France was held in Mayotte on 29 March 2009. Mayotte had been a departmental collectivity of France since 2001. In contrast to the four other similar regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion), Mayotte would not have become an Overseas Department (DOM) or an Overseas Region (ROM), but would only have had a single assembly; the four other existing DOM/ROM will have the option of changing their status to this format as well.[1]
As a result of the yes vote, Mayotte became the 101st French department in 2011, and the first with a population overwhelmingly of the Muslim faith.[2]
- ^ Départementalisation de Mayotte : début d'une campagne d'explication Archived 2 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine, La Gazette, 9 January 2009 (in French)
- ^ Bodin, Johan (29 March 2009). "Mayotte readies for referendum on overseas department status". France 24. Archived from the original on 21 June 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
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