The UN Observer Mission to Verify the Referendum in Eritrea (UNOVER) was established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 47/114 of 16 December 1992 and lasted until 25 April 1993. The goals of the mission were to verify the impartiality of the referendum, report claims of irregularities, and verify the counting, computation and announcement of the results.

The referendum was completed under budget, and was considered free and fair.

The results of the referendum were as follows:

Referendum Results

Region	Do you want Eritrea to be an independent and sovereign country?			Total
	Yes	No	uncounted
Asmara Asmara Asmara is the capital city and largest settlement in Eritrea, home to a population of around 579,000 people...	128,443	144	33	128,620
Barka Barka (Eritrea) Barka was a province of Eritrea until 1996, when it was divided between present day Gash-Barka and Anseba regions. Its capital was Agordat....	4,425	47	0	4,472
Denkalia Denkalia Denkalia was a province of Eritrea until 1996, when it was divided between present day Northern Red Sea and Southern Red Sea regions. Its capital was Assab....	25,907	91	29	26,027
Gash-Setit Gash-Setit Gash-Setit is a designated national wildlife reserve and historical area of western Eritrea. It is located in much of Omhajer District and Haykota District south west of Haykota between the market town of Tesseney in the Gash-Barka region. The name is derived from the two rivers, the Gash and the...	73,236	270	0	73,506
Hamasien Hamasien Hamasien was the name of an histoical province including and surrounding Asmara, now part of modern Eritrea. The region has been divided and distributed amongst the modern Maekel, Debub, Northern Red Sea, Gash-Barka and Anseba regions....	76,654	59	3	76,716
Akkele Guzay Akkele Guzay Akkele Guzay was a province in the interior of Eritrea until 1996, when the newly independent government of Eritrea consolidated all provinces into six regions. Akkele Guzay's population predominantly consisted of followers of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church. Traditionally being part of the...	92,465	147	22	92,634
Sahel Sahel The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the North and the Sudanian Savannas in the south.It stretches across the North African continent between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea....	51,015	141	31	51,187
Semhar Semhar Semhar is the name of an area near the Red Sea Province of Eritrea, which has now become almost incorporated into the Northern Red Sea Region of Eritrea and Massawa was the capital city of the province. The population is mainly Tigre and Saho. The Tigre & Arabic languages are mainly spoken...	33,596	113	41	33,750
Seraye	124,725	72	12	124,809
Senhit Senhit Senhit was a former province of Eritrea until 1996, when it was absorbed into the present day Anseba region. Its capital was Keren....	78,513	26	1	78,540
Freedom fighters	77,512	21	46	77,579
Sudan Sudan Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...	153,706	352	0	154,058
Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...	57,466	204	36	57,706
Other	82,597	135	74	82,806
%	99.79	0.17	0.03

See also

• Eritrean War of Independence
  Eritrean War of Independence
  The Eritrean War of Independence was a conflict fought between the Ethiopian government and Eritrean separatists, both before and during the Ethiopian Civil War. The war started when Eritrea’s autonomy within Ethiopia, where troops were already stationed, was unilaterally revoked...