1991 Turkmen independence referendum

An independence referendum was held in Turkmenistan on 26 October 1991. Voters were asked two questions:

  1. Do you agree with the legislative establishment of Turkmenistan as an independent democratic state?
  2. Do you support the statement of the President and Supreme Soviet of the Turkmenistan Soviet Socialist Republic "On the domestic and foreign policy of Turkmenistan" and the practical activity to implement it?
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Both were approved by over 93% of voters.[1] Voter turnout was 97.4%.

Results

Independence
Choice Votes %
For1,707,72594.06
Against107,6935.94
Invalid/blank votes–
Total1,815,418100
Registered voters/turnout1,864,14297.38
Source: Direct Democracy

Question Two
Choice Votes %
For93.5
Against6.5
Invalid/blank votes–
Total1'815'418100
Registered voters/turnout1,864,14297.38
Source: Direct Democracy
gollark: (Taiwan holds basically all leading edge semiconductor production and I believe a lot of the older stuff. Invading could physically damage it in hard to fix ways, and would probably lead to the loss of most of the people working on it and their knowledge; even ignoring this, it relies on materials from elsewhere which could be cut off. Basically everyone needs the chips produced by TSMC, and if they just stopped existing so would... roughly all consumer electronics for several years.)
gollark: It would not.
gollark: I don't think they can actually militarily do anything to Taiwan without imploding the entire world economy for several years.
gollark: It's unreasonable that people's life chances are affected by who they happened to be born to.
gollark: We should simply eliminate parenting.

References
  1. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p478 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
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