Northern Nueva España status referendum



A referendum on the status of the (at-the-time) northern communities of Nueva España was held on 1 Aprary, C.Y. 37. Voters in present-day Yume and Rio Bogota voted to become part of Taatiklatar. There were three options on the ballot; joining Taatiklatar, remaining part of Nueva España, and becoming an independent country.

Rules
Ranked choice voting was to be used if no option won either an absolute majority of the vote or no option won by a 1000 vote margin.

Background
The northern part of Nueva España had long felt alienated from the predominantly Spanish-descended Pueblo de Hojas and their oversized influence on the Nueva Españan government; the northern area of the country was predominantly Latin American-descended. When the country of Sur, which was also predominantly Latin American and had the same divide with the predominantly Spanish Pueblo de Hojas area, gained independence in C.Y. 28, the independence movement gained momentum in the area and the Northern Independence Party gained several seats in the country's legislature. At first, most independence activists advocated either becoming an exclave of Sur or gaining full independence. However, Taatiklatar's increasing quality of life and the Sur famine of C.Y. 34 increased support for joining Taatiklatar. In C.Y. 36, Nueva España finally approved a referendum with options to remain, join Taatiklatar or gain full independence after several cypriot years of intense petitioning.

Legacy
After the area was absorbed into Taatiklatar, opposition independence movements continued to have significant influence; some wanted to rejoin Nueva España, and some wanted full independence. In a C.Y. 248 Taatiklarian Political News poll of the city of Yume, 42% of respondents indicated that they wanted to rejoin Nueva España, the highest rate measured by any poll in over 50 cypriot years; 45% wanted to stay in Taatiklatar, 9% wanted full independence as an independent Yume province or independent Yume-Rio Bogota union, and 4% wanted full independence as a city-state.