parliamentary vote
Legislature's formal decision
A parliamentary vote is a formal decision-making procedure in a legislature, where members cast votes to pass or reject legislation, approve budgets, or express confidence in a government.
The term covers various voting methods—voice votes, roll calls, or electronic tallies: The bill passed on a parliamentary vote of 312 to 198.
In some contexts, it specifically means a vote of confidence or no confidence that can bring down a government.
- first readingBill's initial presentation
- confidence voteLegislative approval assessment
- crossbenchersUnaligned parliamentary members
- speaker of the houseOne addressing people indoors
- no-confidence voteLegislative leadership rejection
free vote · party line · electronic voting · majority leader · whip · division bell · floor debate · point of order · proxy voting · secret ballot · casting vote · deliberation · voice vote · show of hands · abstention · party caucus · third reading · majority rule
parliamentary voteroyal decree
Official order from sovereign
executive order · diktat · fiat · judicial ruling · presidential decree
parliamentary votedictatorship
Unchecked single-ruler government
tyranny · autocratic rule · autocracy · coup d'état · one-man rule
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