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An up or down vote refers to a direct vote in the US House of Representatives or the US Senate (or indeed in a state senate) on an amendment bill. It...

Vote swapping, also called co-voting or vote pairing, occurs when a voter in one district agrees to vote tactically for a less-preferred candidate or party...

"Five Votes Down" is the fourth episode of The West Wing. The episode aired on October 13, 1999 on NBC. Presidential chief of staff Leo McGarry needs five...

electoral vote since James Monroe's uncontested 1820 re-election. The Free Soil Party regressed to less than five percent of the national popular vote, down from...

party-based constitutional government, the House of Peers could simply vote down bills deemed too liberal by the Meiji oligarchy, such as the introduction...

Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled...

spoilt votes.[citation needed] In multiple-vote U.S. ballots, "voter roll-off" is calculated by subtracting the number of votes cast for a "down-ballot"...

Instant-runoff voting (IRV) (US: ranked-choice voting or RCV, AU: preferential voting, UK: alternative vote), is a single-winner, multi-round elimination...

the complexity of widespread public consultation and letting the public vote down necessary but unpopular expenditures is contrary to the spirit of a representative...

right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 19th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political...

A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion and corresponding vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative...

parliament to pass a vote of no confidence. The ability to vote down legislative proposals of the government. Control over or ability to vote down fiscal measures...

A conscience vote or free vote is a type of vote in a legislative body where legislators are allowed to vote according to their own personal conscience...

Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election....

of the right to vote (suffrage) to non-citizens. This right varies widely by place in terms of which non-citizens are allowed to vote and in which elections...

environmentalism and green politics. However, the party won 9.13% of the popular vote (down from 12.56% in 2019) and only won a single seat. It faced a strong challenge...

transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV), is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form...

the former First Minister says that the Scottish National Party would vote down a Tory government at the first opportunity. ... Kingmaker – or man who...

out of 605 seats, giving them the power to vote down any motion and dismiss the government through a vote of no confidence without being able (or willing)...

was elected with 52.6% of the vote and a majority of 19,456. In January 2016, Hollinrake was one of 72 MPs who voted down an amendment in Parliament on...