Ukraine. Independence Referendum. 1 December 1991
Ukraine held a referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence on 1 December 1991. An overwhelming majority of 92.3% of voters approved the declaration, made by the Verkhovna Rada on 24 August 1991.
Original Source: До 15-ї річниці Всеукраїнського референдуму Документи з фондів ЦДАВО України
Referendum question : “Do you support the Act of the Declaration of the Independence of Ukraine?”
| Region | Voted, % | Answered “Yes”, % |
|---|---|---|
| Crimea | 67.5 | 54.19 |
| Vinnytsia | 91.41 | 95.43 |
| Volyn | 93.2 | 96.32 |
| Dnipropetrovsk | 81.8 | 90.36 |
| Donetsk | 76.73 | 83.9 |
| Zhytomyr | 90.53 | 95.06 |
| Zakarpattia | 82.91 | 92.59 |
| Zaporizhia | 80.59 | 90.66 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk | 95.73 | 98.42 |
| Kiev Region | 88.02 | 95.52 |
| Kirovohrad | 88.07 | 93.88 |
| Luhansk | 80.65 | 83.86 |
| Lviv | 95.24 | 97.46 |
| Mykolaiv | 84.1 | 89.45 |
| Odessa | 75.01 | 85.38 |
| Poltava | 91.87 | 94.93 |
| Rivne | 92.99 | 95.96 |
| Sumy | 88.41 | 92.61 |
| Ternopil | 97.1 | 98.67 |
| Kharkiv | 75.68 | 86.33 |
| Kherson | 83.4 | 90.1 |
| Khmelnytskyi | 93.4 | 96.3 |
| Cherkasy | 90.17 | 96.03 |
| Chernivtsi | 87.68 | 92.78 |
| Chernihiv | 90.78 | 93.74 |
| Kiev | 80.35 | 92.88 |
| Sevastopol | 63.74 | 57.07 |
| Total | 84.18 | 90.32 |