1933 Basque Statute of Autonomy referendum
5 November 1933 (1933-11-05)
Do you approve of the draft Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country?
Results
Choice
 Votes  %
Yes 411,756 96.67%
No 14,196 3.33%
Valid votes 425,952 92.75%
Invalid or blank votes 33,273 7.25%
Total votes 459,225 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 490,157 93.69%

A statutory referendum on the approval of the Basque Statute of Autonomy was held in the Basque Country on Sunday, 5 November 1933. Voters were asked whether they ratified a proposed draft Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country. Article 12 of the Spanish Constitution of 1931 allowed for Spanish provinces to be organized into "autonomous regions", provided that a regional Statute was proposed by a majority of the provinces' municipalities comprising at least two-thirds of the provincial population and that two-thirds majority of all those eligible to vote accepted the draft Statute.[1]

The referendum resulted in 96.7% of valid votes in support of the draft Statute on a turnout of 93.7%, representing 84.0% of the electorate. In terms of approval rate measured as percentage of entitled voters voting yes the numbers were 46,4% in Álava, 89,5% in Gipuzkoa and 88,4% in Biscay. In large municipios (above 10,000 entitled voters) the approval rate was 92,0%, in municipios with 5-10,000 electors 84,4%, in municipios with 3-5,000 electorate 84,1%, in municipios with 1-3,000 electorate 86,4% and in the smallest municipios (below 1,000 electorate) 74,4%.[2] The draft Statute was subsequently submitted to the consideration of the Spanish Cortes.

The Constitution was not clear (in case of few neighboring provinces voting on the same draft) whether the 2/3-approval requirement was aplicable to every single province separately, or to all these provinces in total. Because in Álava the draft was approved by less than 2/3 of entitled voters, this produced a stalemate. In December 1933 PNV recommended to proceed on the joint basis, the same month majority of Alavese councils asked the Cortes to exclude the province from further works.

Cortes were unsure about the way forward. On January 28, 1934, the CEDA deputy Federico Salmón filed a motion to exclude Álava and to proceed with regard to Biscay and Gipuzkoa, which was rejected by a margin of 125 vs 136.[3] The work was delegated to a special commission, but the parliament could not agree on further steps. In June 1934 PNV deputies left the chamber protesting against protracted proceedings; as deputies of no other party were interested, the matter got stuck. The new Cortes, elected in February 1936, worked already on a somewhat significantly version of the 1933 draft, which eventually was accepted by the chamber on October 1, 1936 and with regard to all 3 provinces.[4][5]

Results

Do you approve of the draft Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country?
ChoiceVotes%
For411,75696.67
Against14,1963.33
Total425,952100.00
Valid votes425,95292.75
Invalid/blank votes33,2737.25
Total votes459,225100.00
Registered voters/turnout490,15793.69
Source: Direct Democracy[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Spanish Constitution of 1931". Act of 9 December 1931 (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2019. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ see CSV tables in Resultados Segunda República. Referéndum del Estatuto de Autonomía 1933
  3. ↑ Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa, El País Vasco, 1931-1937: autonomia, revolución, Guerra Civil, Bilbao 2002, ISBN 9788470309175, p. 117
  4. 1 2 "Basque Country (Spain), 5 November 1933: Autonomy Statute". sudd.ch (in German). Direct Democracy. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  5. ↑ "Statute of Autonomy Referendum 1933". euskadi.eus (in Spanish). Basque Government. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
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