'Final Catalan vote count shows 90 pc backed independence'

Final results from Catalonia's outlawed independence referendum showed that 90 per cent of voters backed the region breaking away from Spain, the Catalan government said today.
A full count of the results from last Sunday's vote published online showed that 2,044,038 of the 2,286,217 people who took part voted for independence, with a turnout of 43 per cent.