It was reported in October 2011 that the Australian federal government had reached an agreement with all of the states on potential changes to their laws in the wake of amendments to the Act of Settlement.

By 2011, nearly six of ten full-time undergraduates qualified for a tuition-free education at CUNY due in large measure to state, federal and CUNY financial aid programs.

A July 6, 2011 ruling from a federal appeals court barred further enforcement of the U. S. military's ban on openly gay service members.

In 2011, Bank of America agreed to pay $ 335 million to settle a federal government claim that its mortgage division, Countrywide Financial, discriminated against black and Hispanic homebuyers.

On February 18, 2011, a federal jury found Michael Ciavarella guilty of racketeering because of his involvement in accepting illegal payments from Robert Mericle, the developer of PA Child Care, and Attorney Robert Powell, a co-owner of the facility.

On the federal level, the social democratic New Democratic Party now forms the Official Opposition ( Canada ) after winning 102 / 308 seats ( up from 37 ) in the 2011 Canadian federal election.

A budget outlining 2011 ’ s federal expenditures was also put before and approved by members of parliament, with the payment of civil service employees prioritized.

A budget outlining 2011 ’ s federal expenditures was also put before and approved by members of parliament, with the payment of civil service employees prioritized.

In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 28. 8 % of the vote.

Since the attack to the Casino Royale in 2011, the security has been reinforced by military and federal police.

Data released in 2011 indicated that even closing the fishery would not allow populations to rebound by 2014 to levels required under federal law.

In 2011, Senators Tom Harkin and Roy Blunt and Representatives Steny Hoyer and Peter King introduced the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act to authorize federal funding for Special Olympics Programs and Best Buddies Programs.

Federally, the Green Party of Canada received 3. 91 % of the popular vote in the 2011 federal election and its support and influence continues to rise.

Support waned slightly in the 2011 federal election when it captured 3. 91 % of the popular vote, down from the 6. 8 % captured in the 2008 federal election.

Since that time former Green Party of British Columbia leader, and deputy-leader of the federal Green party, Adriane Carr won the Greens ' first seat on Vancouver City Council, in 2011 municipal elections.

In 2011, in Bond v. United States, the U. S. Supreme Court held a criminal defendant has standing to challenge the federal statute that he or she is charged with violating as being unconstitutional under the Tenth Amendment.

With the passage of the Farm Bill in the summer of 2008 these expanded federal income tax incentives were extended such that they also apply to all conservation easements donated in 2008 and 2009 and then this provision was extended again to apply to donations in 2010 and 2011.

In March 2011, a federal judge dismissed many of the city's claims, including an argument that Public Law 99-503 infringed on the State of Arizona's Sovereignty.

In 2011, Medicare spending accounted for about 15 percent of the federal budget, and this share is projected to increase to over 17 percent by 2020.

The Bloc won four seats in the 2011 federal election, fewer than the 12 required for official party status in the House of Commons.

Gilles Duceppe, who had served as interim leader after Bouchard stepped down, became leader of the Bloc in 1997 and remained leader up until 2011, resigning after the 2011 federal election.

After the 2011 state election, there is a coalition of the Social Democratic Party with the Christian Democratic Union, and for the first time ever, the Pirate Party won seats in a state parliament in Germany.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

The two dominant political parties in Canada have historically been the Liberal Party of Canada and Conservative Party of Canada ( or its predecessors ), and as of the 2011 election the social-democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP ) has risen to prominence.

The Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 was held on 4 December 2011, and the Kukuriku coalition won.

Ireland has had consecutive coalition governments since the 1989 general election, excluding two brief Fianna Fáil minority administrations in 1994 and 2011 that followed the withdrawal of their coalition partners from government.

On February 23, 2011, former Illinois Congressman and White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, won the municipal election to become mayor of Chicago, heavily beating five rivals with 55 percent of the vote.

Guelleh was re-elected in the 2011 presidential election.

Many new political parties formed in anticipation of running candidates in the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011 – 2012.

* 2011 – In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffers the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.

At the 2011 general election, Fine Gael gained 25 seats bringing them to a total of 76.

Fine Gael won 19 seats in Seanad Éireann following the 2011 election, a gain of four from the previous election in 2007.

The most recent Fine Gael presidential candidate, Gay Mitchell, finished fourth in the 2011 presidential election, with 6. 4 % of the vote.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

After the February 2011 election, it moved from being the largest party to the third-largest party in the 31st Dáil.

This was in part exacerbated by significant infighting between candidates in the run up to the 2011 general election.

In the latest elections, which took place in 2011, Retired General Otto Pérez Molina of the Patriotic Party won the presidential election in a runoff against populist Manuel Baldizón of the LIDER party.

Cuomo won the November 2010 gubernatorial election and was sworn in as the 56th governor of the state of New York on January 1, 2011.

On 4 April 2011, a senior Haitian official announced that Michel Martelly had won the second round of the election against candidate Mirlande Manigat.

In the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011 – 2012, the political parties identified as " Islamist " ( the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafi Al-Nour Party ) won 70 % of the total seats.

Party leader John Gormley called publicly in November 2010 for a general election in the state to be fixed by the latter half of January 2011, allowing time for the Oireachtas to pass legislation for European Union and International Monetary Fund financial support for Ireland ; the date of the election was eventually set for March 2011.