A little more on the 1991 referendum on preservation of the USSR

On 25 December I wrote about the 1991 referendum on the preservation of the Soviet Union, where 76.43% of all citizens chose to keep the Union "as a modernized federation of equal sovereign republics, where the rights and freedoms of the people of all nationalities would be guaranteed". Some days ago one of the readers asked me what was the breakup by republics. I tried to post the table in the comments, but it turns out that Blogger.com does not support tables in comments, so I post it as a separate article.

Strangely enough, I couldn't find the referendum results in English. The table below was taken from here. It includes the republics of the USSR and autonomous republics.

	Number of registered electors		Participated in the referendum		Votes "Yes"		Votes "No"		Invalid votes
				%		%		%		%
	1		2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Russia	105.643.364		79.701.169	75,4	56.860.783	71,3	21.030.753	26,4	1.809.633	2,3
Ukraine	37.732.178		31.514.244	83,5	22.110.899	70,2	8.820.089	28,0	583.256	1,8
Byelorussia	7.354.796		6.126.983	83,3	5.069.313	82,7	986.079	16,1	71.591	1,2
Uzbekistan	10.278.938		9.816.333	95,4	9.196.848	93,7	511.373	5,2	108.112.	1,1
Kazakhstan	9.999.433		8.816.543	88,2	8.295.519	94,1	436.560	5,0	84.464	0,9
Azerbaijan	3.866.659		2.903.797	75,1	2.709.246	93,3	169.225	5,8	25.326	0,9
Kyrgyzstan	2.341646		2.174.593	92,9	2.057.971	96,4	86.245	4,0	30.377	1,4
Tajikistan	2.549.096		2.407.552	94,4	2.315.755	96,2	75.300	3,1	16.497	0,7
Turkmenistan	1.847.310		1.804.138	97,7	1.766.584	97,9	31.203	1,7	6.351	0,4
Bashkiria	2.719.637		2.221.158	81,7	1.908.875	85,9	269.007	12,1	43.276	2,0
Buryatia	668.231		535.802	80,2	447.438	83,5	78.167	14,6	10.197	1,9
Dagestan	1.008.626		812.009	80,5	670.488	82,6	131.522	16,2	9.999	1,2
Kabardino-Balkaria		489.436	372.607	76,1	290.380	77,9	77.339	20,8	4.888	1,3
Kalmykia	204.301		169.124	82,8	148.462	87,8	17.833	10,5	2.829	1,7
Karelia	551644		418.101	75,8	317.854	76,0	92.703	22,2	7.544	1,8
Komi	797.049		543.403	68,2	412.842	76,0	119.678	22,0	10.883	2,0
Mari El	525.685		418.599	79,6	333.319	79,6	77.239	18,5	8.041	1,9
Mordovia	677.706		571.631	84,3	459.021	80,3	101.886	17,8	10,724	1,9
North Ossetia	428.307		367.858	85,9	331.823	90,2	32.786	8,9	3.249	0,9
Tatarstan	2.532.383		1.951.768	77,1	1.708.193	87,5	211.516	10,8	32.059	1,7
Tuva	171.731		138.496	80,6	126.598	91,4	9.404	6,8	2.494	1,8
Udmurtia	1.103.083		819.140	74,3	622.714	76,0	180.289	22,0	16.137	2,0
Chechnya and Ingushetia	712.139		419.012	58,8	318.059	75,9	94.737	22,6	6.216	1,5
Chuvashia	900.913		748.420	81,3	616.387	82,4	113.249	15,1	18.784	2,5
Yakutia	688.679		541.993	78.7	415.712	76,7	116.798	21,6	9.483	1,8
Karakalpak	584.208		577.717	98.9	563.916	97,6	10.133	1,8	3.668	0,6
Abkhazia	318.317		166.544	52,3	164.231	98,6	1.566	0,9	747	0,5
Nakhichevan	174.364		35.866	20,6	31.328	87,3	3.620	10,1	918	2,6
The governments of Baltic republics, Georgia, Moldova and Armenia boycotted the referendum, the central election committees were not created. A number of local election committees were formed, though, and some people participated in the referendum. The results are below (excluding the results from Soviet military bases):
	1		2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Georgia	45.696		44.012	96,3	43.950	99,9	9	-	53	0,1
Lithuania	582.262		501.375	86,1	496.050	98,9	4.355	0,9	970	0,2
Moldova	841.507		700.893	83,3	688.905	98,3	8.916	1,3	3.072	0,4
Latvia	670.828		436.783	65,1	415.147	95,1	18.015	4,1	3,621	0,8
Armenia	4.923		3.549	72,1	2.549	71,6	966	27,2	42	1,2
Estonia	299.681		222.240	74.2	211.090	95,0	10.040	4,5	1.110	0,5
Ajaria
Military detachments located in boycotting republics
	1.261.721		1.233.858	97,8	1.107.980	89.8	113.283	9,2	12.595	1,0

An even more detailed breakup by regions of Russia can be found here: Russia. March Referendum 1991.