An adverse vote of 81 to 65 kept in the State Affairs Committee a bill which would order the referendum on the April 4 ballot, when Texas votes on a U.S. senator.

The laws against the department stores opening on Sundays were ended by referendum in 1990.

On November 7, 1933, the referendum on the Blue Laws passed in Philadelphia and it became law.

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

A new modern constitution, which devolved some authority from the United Kingdom to the Cayman Islands government, was passed by referendum on 20 May 2009.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

As the February 28, 2008 deadline to approve or reject CAFTA loomed, Arias decided to call for the referendum himself, and it took take place on October 7, 2007.

On 2 May 1991 the Croatian parliament voted to hold a referendum on independence.

They held their own referendum a week earlier on 12 May 1991 in the territories they controlled and voted to remain in Yugoslavia which the Croatian government did not recognize as valid.

In 2001, a group of activists collected thousands of signatures for the Varela Project, a petition requesting a referendum on the island's political process was openly supported by former US president Jimmy Carter during his historic 2002 visit to Cuba.

A referendum took place on May 16, 2009 to decide whether to cut down the government's unwieldy political bureaucracy.

In November 2008, Columbia's undergraduate student body held a referendum on the question of whether or not to invite ROTC back to campus, and the students who voted were almost evenly divided on the issue.

Specifically, this demand for political democracy implies complete freedom to agitate for secession and for a referendum on secession by the seceding nation.

__NOTOC__The current Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, approved by Chilean voters in a controversial and tightly controlled plebiscite on September 11, 1980, under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, partially effective March 11, 1981, fully effective 11 March 1990 and amended considerably on August 17, 1989 ( via referendum ) and on September 22, 2005 ( legislatively ), and also in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, replaced the earlier constitution of 1925.

After the plebiscite, several modifications to the Constitution were agreed and subjected to referendum, among them a simplification on the mechanism of future modification.

On 18 and 19 December 2005, a successful nationwide referendum was carried out on a draft constitution which set the stage for elections in 2006.

That constitution was adopted by referendum in December 2005, and decreed into law on 18 February 2006.

Currently, the Danish government wants a referendum on the opt-outs from the EU-treaty, but the prospect of the opt-outs perhaps being rejected does not look appealing.

In 1958, on the eve of neighboring Somalia's independence in 1960, a referendum was held in Djibouti to decide whether or not to join the Somali Republic or to remain with France.

However, the referendum was again marred by reports of vote rigging on the part of the French authorities, with some 10, 000 Somalis deported under the pretext that they did not have valid identity cards.

The population of Armenia voted overwhelmingly for independence in a September 1991 referendum, followed by a presidential election in October 1991 that gave 83 % of the vote to Levon Ter-Petrosyan.

Following a constitutional referendum of July 2000, the president of the CNSP decided to run for president, and indeed declared himself president after the elections of 22 October 2000.

An October 2007 referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario on adopting a Mixed Member Proportional system, also requiring 60 % approval, failed with only 36. 9 % voting in favour.

Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing British colony in October 1923, subsequent to a 1922 referendum.

The occupation yielded to a transitional administrative law, which was replaced by the Constitution of Iraq following approval in a referendum held on October 15, 2005.

Akayev scheduled an October 1994 referendum, overwhelmingly approved by voters, which proposed two amendments to the constitution — one that would allow the constitution to be amended by means of a referendum, and the other creating a new bicameral parliament called the Jogorku Kenesh.

An October 1998 referendum approved constitutional changes, including increasing the number of deputies in the lower house, reducing the number of deputies in the upper house, providing for 25 % of lower house deputies to be elected by party lists, rolling back parliamentary immunity, introducing private property, prohibiting adoption of laws restricting freedom of speech and mass media, and reforming the state budget.

Akayev scheduled an October 1994 referendum, overwhelmingly approved by voters, that proposed two amendments to the Constitution, one that would allow the Constitution to be amended by means of a referendum, and the other creating a new bicameral parliament called the Jogorku Keņesh.

An October 1998 referendum approved constitutional changes, including increasing the number of deputies in the upper house, reducing the number of deputies in the lower house, rolling back Parliamentary immunity, reforming land tender rules, and reforming the state budget.

After the referendum, Doe staged a presidential election on October 15, 1985.

In this referendum on 17 October 2003, 90. 3 % voted in favour of then president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom ( turnout 77 %).

( The constitution was most recently revised by a national referendum on October 18 – 19, 2003, again plagued by fraud accusations made by internal and international observers.

It was ratified by public referendum, but never put into force ; like other laws, it was indefinitely suspended by the decree of October that the government of France would be " revolutionary until the peace ".

In October 1987 a revised Constitution was approved by national referendum and direct elections for a new president were carried out in December, bringing the 5th Republic to a close.

Momoh was elected President in a referendum on 1 October 1985.

Based on that recommendation, a constitution was approved by Parliament in July 1991 and ratified by referendum in September ; it became effective on 1 October 1991.

The referendum took place on October 20, 1945, with ( according to official numbers ) 100 % of the electorate voting for independence.

In the 1995 referendum, conducted on 15 October, he reportedly received 99. 96 % of the votes in a 99. 47 % turnout, getting only 3052 negative votes among an electorate of 8. 4 million.

In the October 15, 2002 referendum he officially achieved 100 % of approval votes and 100 % turnout, as the electoral commission reported the next day that every one of the 11, 445, 638 eligible voters cast a " Yes " vote for the president.

* October 25 – Lithuania holds a referendum on its first constitution after declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

* October 26 – In a national referendum, voters in Canada reject the Charlottetown Accord.