This morning I noted today’s referendum on autonomy for Catalonia within Spain. Via the AFP here are the preliminary results (Voters back greater autonomy for Spain’s Catalonia region)

With 99 percent of the votes counted, 73.9 percent of voters had backed the new statute, while 20.7 percent voted “no”, with voter turnout at about 48 percent, official results released by the regional government showed.

More than five percent of ballot papers were blank or void.