The vote broke largely along regional lines, with legislators from south and west favouring Bonn and legislators from north and east voting for Berlin.

For publicly-traded companies in the U. S., the directors which are available to vote on are largely selected by either the board as a whole or a nominating committee.

In December 1990, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a liberation theology Roman Catholic ( Salesian ) priest, won 67 % of the vote in elections that international observers deemed largely free and fair.

Smith finished second in MVP balloting to Andre Dawson, who had played on the last-place Chicago Cubs, largely because Smith and teammate Jack Clark split the first-place vote.

In Russia a new legislature, called the Congress of People's Deputies, was elected in March 1990 in a largely free and competitive vote.

The referendum turned out in favour of a continued association with France, largely due to a combined yes vote by the sizable Afar ethnic group and resident Europeans.

Support for Li for the largely ceremonial position was low, as he only received less than 90 % of the vote at the 1998 National People's Congress, where he was the only candidate.

However the repeal was not sufficient to enable the South African Parliament to ignore the entrenched clauses of its constitution ( the South Africa Act ) which led to the coloured vote constitutional crisis of the 1950s wherein the right of coloureds to vote in the main South African Parliament was removed and replaced with a separate, segregated, and largely powerless assembly.

" When the House of Representatives finally took a roll call vote on February 9, 1941, the 260 to 165 vote fell largely along party lines.

This was largely due to the fact that voters of most other parties were unwilling to favourably preference One Nation, under Australia's single transferable vote voting system.

The 1835 Democratic National Convention, in Baltimore, in May 1835, was held under the two-thirds rule, largely to demonstrate Van Buren's wide popularity, and, although Van Buren himself was nominated unanimously, Johnson barely obtained the necessary two thirds of the vote.

This swift increase meant more power for the marabout whose outreach spread largely over the rural and peasant communities, which now had the opportunity to vote.

However, in 1952 this comment was oddly true about the then Liberal party whose continued political representation in parliament was largely due to the Conservative party avoid splitting the ' anti-socialist ' vote.

The Head of state of the East Timorese republic is the president, who is elected by popular vote for a five-year term and whose role is largely symbolic, though he is able to veto some legislation.

In this case the tactic maintained some proportionality by bypassing the 5 % threshold, but is largely disfavoured by the public due to it awarding smaller parties extra list seats while parties with a higher party vote percentage that don't win an electorate receive no seats ( this occurred in 2008 when ACT was awarded 5 seats on the back of one electorate seat and 3. 7 % of the party vote, while New Zealand First with no electorate seats and 4. 1 % of the party vote were awarded none.

Former Shreveport Mayor James C. Gardner of Shreveport, who at the time lived only two blocks from Brooks, said in his memoirs that he believes Brooks ' death was " largely a result of the strain that he experienced from the Rules Committee vote.

Kwajalein largely supported a vote of no confidence for President Tomeing in April 2009.

The party contested the 2009 European elections, largely around the slogan of ' Make Greed History ', campaigning for a Europe wide ' greed tax ' on the continent's rich, and marginally increased its vote compared to 2007.

But any proceedings taken against the minister would have involved charges against the king, who was largely responsible for his policy, and the impeachment was averted by a vote of parliament in February 1890.

Bork lost confirmation by a Senate vote of 42 to 58, largely due to Bork's controversial opinions on constitutional issues and his role in the Nixon Saturday Night Massacre.

At the November 2000 elections, boycotted by the opposition, Aristide was again elected president, with more than 90 % of the vote, on a turnout of around 50 % according to international observers.

International observers judged the 2001 elections to be acceptable, but the Union for Victory Coalition, the second-largest vote recipient, disputed the results and boycotted parliament until 31 January 2002.

In November 1945, Tito's pro-republican People's Front, led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, won the elections with an overwhelming majority, the vote having been boycotted by monarchists.

Although the only announced candidate for the presidency of the republic, the National Assembly elected him by the second narrowest margin in Lebanese history ( 57 votes out of 92 ) on August 23, 1982 ; most Muslim members of the Assembly boycotted the vote.

Rhee won a seat at the First Assembly of South Korea on 10 May 1948 by one parliamentary vote after left-wing parties boycotted the election.

The referendum was boycotted by Serbs, who regarded it as an unconstitutional move, but achieved a 99. 4 % vote in favour on a 67 % turnout ( which almost entirely constituted of the Bosniak and Croat communities ).

Three ministers in Prodi's Cabinet boycotted a vote in January to continue funding for Italian troop deployments in Afghanistan.

RJP MPs had previously boycotted a vote in the interim parliament on making Nepal a republic. Thapa had dubbed the vote ' an attack on the fundamental norms of democracy '.

He attempted to legitimize his rule with a multiparty presidential election in August 1993, which was boycotted by the opposition ; facing only two minor challengers, he won 96. 42 % of the vote, although turnout was reportedly low outside of his native Kara Region.

In the October 1997 presidential election, which was boycotted by the main opposition parties, Biya was re-elected with 92. 6 percent of the vote ; he was sworn in on 3 November.

The opposition parties boycotted the parliamentary vote and deadlocked the election process.

Its deputies boycotted the April 2008 parliamentary vote in which the amendment was approved, and it subsequently called for a " day of mourning " in which people were to wear black and stay home.

The abolitionist forces boycotted the ratification vote because it failed to offer them a means to vote against slavery.

Free-state supporters, who comprised a large majority of actual settlers, boycotted the vote.

Both the Topeka and Lecompton constitutions were placed before the people of the Kansas Territory for a vote, and both votes were boycotted by supporters of the opposing faction.

Support for the Soviet Union remained high, with a local referendum in March 1991 yielding an almost unanimous " yes " vote to stay in the USSR ; Moldovans in Gagauzia, however, boycotted the referendum.

However, the Kabyle population boycotted the elections following the Arouch directives, only 10 % ( officially ) of them went to vote.

Fears of an uprising led the Bolivian government to take measures essentially forcing the population to vote ( announcing fines and other penalties for those who refused or boycotted ) and warned that protesters against the referendum would be imprisoned.

The vote was boycotted by the disconcerted ARD, who witnessed the MMA recite “ No LFO no, go Musharraf go ” throughout the year ’ s parliamentary session and organized rallies against the legislation in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

The vote offered a choice only between full slavery and limited slavery in the territory and was thus largely boycotted by Free-Staters who were in favor of abolishing slavery.

The parliament elected Flosse with 29 of 57 votes ; the 28 pro-independence members boycotted the vote.

The PCs boycotted house proceedings for several weeks, and Walding refused to call the house to order for a vote.