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  2. Pair (parliamentary convention) - Wikipedia

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    In parliamentary practice, pairing is an informal arrangement between the government and opposition parties whereby a member of a legislative body agrees or is designated by a party whip to be absent from the chamber or to abstain from voting when a member of the other party needs to be absent from the chamber due to other commitments, illness, travel problems, etc.

  3. Vote pairing - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, Stein campaign co-chair Gloria Mattera criticized vote pairing schemes, stating that the campaign's position on vote pairing is that it is a failed strategy because voting for the "lesser evil" had led highly distrusted major party candidates, and that Americans should instead vote for the candidate who best represents their interests ...

  4. Pairing and why it matters in the House of Commons - AOL

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  5. Alba Party MPs thrown out of Commons amid protest at ... - AOL

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    Richard Wheeler, PA Parliamentary Editor July 13, 2022 at 7:39 AM Two MPs were thrown out of the House of Commons after launching a protest at the start of Prime Minister’s Questions.

  6. Chief Whip of the Conservative Party - Wikipedia

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    The party leadership may allow members to have a free vote based on their own conscience rather than party policy, which means the chief whip is not required to influence the way members vote. This is a list of people who have served as Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, previously the Tory Party, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

  7. Division of the assembly - Wikipedia

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    A member of the party (usually a whip) will respond to their party's name by stating how many members of the party are in favour or opposed. The Clerk tallies up the votes and gives the results to the Speaker, who declares the result. A split party vote is a variation of the party vote, used for some conscience issues. The main difference is ...

  8. Party-line vote - Wikipedia

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    A party-line vote in a deliberative assembly (such as a constituent assembly, parliament, or legislature) is a vote in which a substantial majority of members of a political party vote the same way (usually in opposition to the other political party(ies) whose members vote the opposite way).

  9. Partisan (politics) - Wikipedia

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    The term's meaning has changed dramatically over the last 60 years in the United States. Before the American National Election Study (described in Angus Campbell et al., in The American Voter) began in 1952, an individual's partisan tendencies were typically determined by their voting behaviour.