1979 Catalan Statute of Autonomy referendum

1979 Catalan Statute of Autonomy referendum
25 October 1979
"Do you approve of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia Bill?"
Results
Choice
 Votes %
checkY Yes 2,327,038 91.91%
☒N No 204,957 8.09%
Valid votes 2,531,995 95.91%
Invalid or blank votes 107,956 4.09%
Total votes 2,639,951 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 4,451,796 59.3%

A referendum on the approval of the Catalan Statute of Autonomy was held in Catalonia on Thursday, 25 October 1979. Voters were asked whether they ratified a proposed Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia bill organizing the provinces of Barcelona, Gerona, Lérida and Tarragona into an autonomous community of Spain. The final draft of the bill had been approved by the Catalan Assembly of Parliamentarians on 29 December 1978,[1] and by the Congress of Deputies on 13 August 1979,[2] but it required ratification through a binding referendum and its subsequent approval by the Spanish Cortes Generales, as established by Article 151 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The referendum was held simultaneously with a similar vote in the Basque Country.

The referendum resulted in 91.9% of valid votes in support of the bill on a turnout of 59.3%.[3][4] Once approved, the bill was submitted to the consideration of the Cortes Generales, which accepted it on 29 November (in the Congress of Deputies) and 12 December (in the Spanish Senate), receiving royal assent on 18 December and published in the Official State Gazette on 22 December 1979.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Tarradellas cedió ante la unidad de los parlamentarios catalanes". El País (in Spanish). 30 December 1978. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  2. ^ "La Comisión Constitucional aprueba el proyecto de Estatuto de Cataluña". El País (in Spanish). 14 August 1979. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Catalonia (Spain), 25 October 1979: Autonomy Statute". sudd.ch (in German). Direct Democracy. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Referéndum sobre el proyecto de Estatuto de Autonomía para Cataluña". congreso.es (in Spanish). Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Sinopsis del Estatuto de Cataluña". congreso.es (in Spanish). Congress of Deputies. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  6. ^ Ley Orgánica 4/1979, de 18 de diciembre, de Estatuto de Autonomía de Cataluña. Boletín Oficial del Estado (Organic Law 4) (in Spanish). 18 December 1979. Retrieved 1 September 2019.