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This referendum would also have required approval by 60% of those voting. The second referendum was held on May 12, 2009, in conjunction with the provincial election. The results were a "supermajority" of 60.92% voting for retaining the current "first past the post" electoral system and 39.8% voting for the proposed Single Transferable Vote.
The ordinance was ratified by a popular referendum on February 23, making Texas the seventh and last state of the Lower South to do so. [11] [13] [15] 1861 Texas Secession Referendum Map by county, teal is For and orange is Against [16] Some wanted to restore the Republic of Texas, but an identity with the Confederacy was embraced.
Cascadia. Cascadia. Proposed state: Republic of Cascadia Advocacy group: Cascadia Department of Bioregion [3] [4] [5] Western Canada. Western Canada. Proposed state: West Canada (includes Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan as well as (sometimes) Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
The impact of the referendum caused the Canadian Press to label it the Canadian Newsmaker of the Year, an honour that usually goes to individual people. CBC said that this was the first time that the "country's newsrooms have selected a symbol instead of a specific person", which was done again in 2006, [17] 2007, and 2020.
As an example of what ex-premier Bernard Landry explained, it can be established that after the Quebec Referendum of 1995 where the Yes vote lost by a margin of about 0.5% (49.42% Yes, 50.58% No), no attempts to partition were made by the "Yes" voter base, in respect of the referendum. It is an argument based less on legal grounds, and more on ...
January 5 – The domed roof of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver collapses.; January 11 – A major blizzard rips through Central Saskatchewan.; January – The Quebec town of Hérouxville received international attention when its town council passed controversial measures concerning practices which the residents deemed unsuitable for life in Hérouxville for potential new immigrants, despite the ...
Historical annexationist movements inside Canada were usually inspired by dissatisfaction with Britain's colonial government of Canada. Groups of Irish immigrants took the route of armed struggle, attempting to annex the peninsula between the Detroit and Niagara Rivers to the U.S. by force in the minor and short-lived Patriot War in 1837–1838.
2007 Andalusian Statute of Autonomy referendum; 2007 Chechen constitutional referendum; 2007 Micronesian parliamentary election; 2007 Portuguese abortion referendum; 2007 Slovenian privatisation referendum; 2007 Swiss referendums; 2007 Thai constitutional referendum; 2007 Turkish constitutional referendum