More than 2.3 million people voted in Catalonia's symbolic independence vote with 80 percent of them backing secession from Spain, the regional government said on Monday. With all the ballots counted in Catalonia, the total number in Sunday's poll reached 2,305,290 in the region of some 7.5 million inhabitants, it said in a statement.
Catalans pushed ahead with the symbolic vote in defiance of legal challenges from Madrid which stripped of legal force their initial plan for an official non-binding referendum. The ballot papers posed two questions: "Do you want Catalonia to be a state?" and if so, "Do you want that state to be independent?" According to Monday's results, 80.76 people answered 'yes' to both questions - 1.86 million overall.
A total of 10.7 percent answered 'yes' to the first question and 'no' to the second, while 4.54 percent answered 'no' to the first. Those ratios did not include the 13,573 people who have voted so far at polling stations overseas, where ballots will remain open until November 25.
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