The constitution was approved by referendum in 1991.

In 1908, a statewide referendum that proposed moving the California state capital to Berkeley was defeated by a margin of about 33, 000 votes.

In the non-USSR annexed portion of Poland, less than a third of Poland's population voted in favor of massive communist land reforms and industry nationalizations in a policies referendum known as " 3 times YES " ( 3 razy TAK ; 3xTAK ), whereupon a second vote rigged election was held to get the desired result.

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 process of democratization quickened in 1986 with the creation of a new political party, the Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain ( RDC ), and the drafting of a new constitution that subsequently was ratified in a national referendum.

After Srijem left Croatia and Slavonia and joined Serbia together with Vojvodina, which was shortly followed by a referendum to join Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia, the People's Council ( Narodno vijeće ) of the state, guided by what was by that time a half a century long tradition of pan-Slavism and without sanction of the Croatian sabor, joined the Kingdom of Serbia into the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

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.

For example, Australian left-wing " true believers " levelled it at supporters of the failed republic referendum of 1999 ( where the vote was split not along conventional party lines but very much along socio-economic divides, with the rich overwhelmingly supporting the change while the less well-off were opposed – a superficially bizarre pattern for a non-economic issue ).

In 1984, a proposal for a $ 150 million domed stadium was defeated in a referendum 2 – 1.

He also signed the Worker's Compensation Act of 1910, which required a compulsory, employer-paid plan of compensation for workers injured in hazardous industries and a voluntary system for other workers ; after the New York Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional in 1911, a popular referendum was held that successfully made the law an amendment in the New York Constitution.

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.

The Amsterdam Treaty was approved in the referendum of 28 May 1998.

It was not considered a surrendering of national sovereignty, which would have implied the holding of a referendum according to article 20 of the constitution.

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.

There was also widespread vote rigging, with the French expelling thousands of Somalis before the referendum reached the polls.

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.

In 1967, shortly after the second referendum was held, the former Côte française des Somalis ( French Somaliland ) was renamed to Territoire français des Afars et des Issas.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

In the presence of a UN observer team, a referendum was held on August 11, 1968, and 63 % of the electorate voted in favor of the constitution, which provided for a government with a General Assembly and a Supreme Court with judges appointed by the president.

The outcome of those talks was an agreement in which the Ethiopians recognized the right of the Eritreans to hold a referendum on independence.

In May 1991 the EPLF established the Provisional Government of Eritrea ( PGE ) to administer Eritrean affairs until a referendum was held on independence and a permanent government established.

Because she strongly desired to campaign for the " No " forces in the weeks leading up to Quebec's 1980 referendum on separation from Canada, Sauvé initially refused the offer of running for the non-partisan position, but eventually acquiesced after Trudeau convinced her that she was the right person for the job and she received permission from the leaders of all the parties in the House of Commons to engage in the federalist campaign in Quebec.

The party was founded in April 1978 as Herri Batasuna, a coalition of leftist nationalist political groups mostly originating from Euskadiko Ezkerra initially brought together to advocate for " no " in the referendum to be held that year on the Spanish constitution.

After seizing power, Bozizé initially said he would not run in a planned future presidential election, but after the successful constitutional referendum, he announced his intention to stand as a candidate on 11 December:

The president was initially elected by an electoral college, but in 1962 de Gaulle proposed that the president be directly elected by the citizens, and held a referendum on the change.

He responded to the protests by initially calling them American lackeys, but later acceded to holding a referendum on the matter.

The Anschluss was initially enthusiastically greeted by many Social Democrats, such as the ex-chancellor Karl Renner who pledged to vote “ yes ” in a referendum on the Anschluss (“ Ich stimme mit ‘ Ja ’”) and finally realise the old dream of a union with Germany.

She was initially opposed to the creation of the National Assembly for Wales, saying that there was not a large enough majority in favour of it in the Welsh devolution referendum, 1997.

While initially popular among state legislators, and some civic and business leaders it was ultimately voted down by referendum.

The use of the referendum in initially adopting the Constitution, and its requirement for constitutional amendment, has been cited by justices of the High Court to argue that the Constitution is fundamentally based on popular sovereignty ( rather than on the supremacy of the British Parliament, which is its technical legal foundation ).

Although the adoption of a Constitution had initially been played down as a ' tidying-up ' exercise with no need for a popular vote, as increasing numbers of EU member states announced their intention to hold a referendum, the French government came under increasing pressure to follow suit.

After initially resisting all claims by Morocco and Mauritania ( which also started laying claims to parts of the region ), Spain announced on August 20, 1974, that a referendum on self-determination would be held in the first six months of 1975 and took a census of the region in order to assess the voting population.

She is a well-known figure in the Swedish public debate on environmental and food quality issues, initially as a non-partisan, and was an avid proponent of Swedish membership in the European Union during the EU membership referendum campaign in 1994.

Rudd had initially pledged bipartisan support for John Howard's proposal, made on the first day of the election campaign, to pursue a referendum recognising Indigenous Australians, but it was reported on 23 November that Rudd had stated that, should he win the election, he was " unlikely to pursue Mr Howard's plan for a reconciliation preamble.

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.

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.

This would mean the government of Niger would carry out scheduled parliamentary elections in September, two months early, and a referendum on a new constitution before Presidential elections which can take place no later than December, assuming the 1999 constitution is in effect.

Initially scheduled for 1992, the referendum has not taken place, due to the conflict over who has the right to vote.

A referendum was scheduled for 23 October 1955 to determine the future direction of the south.

A referendum was scheduled for 23 October 1955 to determine the future direction of the south.

Washington is scheduled to permit such marriages if that state's same-sex marriage law is upheld in a referendum in November 2012.

A referendum was scheduled, and the coup and the Constitution of 1993 were approved by a narrow margin of between four and five percent.

The first referendum to be held under this legislation is currently scheduled for September 2011 on the subject of repealing the Harmonized Sales Tax.

Among the approved reforms were a binding Constituency Commission scheduled for June 2011, with the specific purpose of reducing the number of TDs by up to 20 ; an act to establish a six-month time limit for holding by-elections to the Dáil ; a € 750, 000 spending limit in the 2011 Irish presidential election ; Legislation to ban corporate donations, to be enacted by summer 2011 ; establishment of a Constitutional Convention in 2011, which will include discussion of the Seanad ; and a referendum to abolish the Seanad, to be held in the second half of 2012.

A SPLOST is passed by a county commission, usually with the agreement of its city councils, and voted up or down by residents in a referendum, usually during the next scheduled election.

A referendum was scheduled for 23 October 1955, to determine the future direction of the south.

Prince Edward Island plans on switching to a HST on April 1 2013, the same date that British Columbia is scheduled to revert to a separate GST / PST after their adoption of a HST in 2010 was rejected in a referendum.

The independence referendum was originally scheduled for 1992, but conflicts over voter eligibility prevented it from being held.

Regarding the controversial Harmonized Sales Tax ( HST ), she campaigned early on to cancel the referendum scheduled for September 2011.

This would mean the government of Niger would carry out scheduled parliamentary elections in September, two months early, and a referendum on a new constitution before presidential elections which can take place no later than December, assuming the 1999 constitution is in effect.

Moreover, he also engaged in a process culminating in full powers over taxation for Catalonia — significantly reducing the so-called ' fiscal deficit ' between Catalonia and Spain — by putting this issue to referendum to the Catalans and as a condition for giving any support to Spanish governments in Madrid after the Spanish elections scheduled for 2012.

An enlargement of this zone has been put on the agenda by the local administration, but a referendum about this issue is scheduled on 24 September 2006.

) Another referendum was scheduled for July 2007 to approve the specific amendments to the Constitution of Puerto Rico that are required for the change.

He also became the administrative head of a southern Sudan with limited autonomy for the six years before a scheduled referendum of possible secession.

It was officially relegated into a city status following its referendum scheduled on August 11, 2012.

It has 83, 470 voters according to the scheduled referendum.