The fight for Galicia's statute of autonomy was unsuccessful in 1936, but it was made possible by 80% of the 614,218 voters in the referendum held in 1980.
Nonetheless, they would still support the Statute and ask for a "yes" vote in the referendum to come. The campaign for the Statute referendum was intense and, finally, on 28 June 1936, Galicians were called to general vote. The turnout was 74.56 per cent (a very high figure for that time), with 993,351 votes in favour and 6,161 against. Once the Constitutional Committee and the Spanish Parliamentary Assembly altered this first draft, it was finally ratified by the Galician people in a referendum held in December 1980. It came into effect on 6 April 1981 after being signed by King Juan Carlos I of Spain and by Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, President of the Spanish government, in the Spanish Royal Palace. 
