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This is a list of successful votes of no confidence in British governments led by prime ministers of the former Kingdom of Great Britain and the current United Kingdom. The first motion of no confidence to defeat a ministry was in 1742 against the Whig government of Robert Walpole, who is generally regarded as the de facto first prime minister.
A no-confidence vote was last successfully used on 28 March 1979, when the minority government of James Callaghan was defeated. [5] A no-confidence vote can have the effect of uniting the ruling party; for this reason such motions are rarely used and successful motions are even rarer. [6]
John Diefenbaker (1963) – loss of confidence supply as a result of cabinet revolt; Pierre Trudeau (1974) – loss of confidence supply [a] Joe Clark (1979) – lost a budget vote; Paul Martin (2005) – opposition triggered motion [b] Stephen Harper (2011) – motion of no confidence that held the government in contempt of Parliament.
Following the German model, votes of no confidence in Spain are constructive and so the motion must also include an alternative candidate for prime minister. For a motion of no confidence to be successful, it has to be carried by an absolute majority in the Congress of Deputies.
A motion of no confidence has been laid down by the Liberal Democrats as they seek to topple the Boris Johnson administration following a litany of claims of coronavirus rule breaking in No 10.
This is a list of successful votes of no confidence in Italian governments, which resulted in their resignation or dismissal. It includes both governments who served under the Kingdom of Italy and governments who served under the Republic of Italy.
The UK university senate voted no confidence in President Eli Capilouto after two months of disagreements about the role of the senate and shared governance.
A survey of 150 faculty no-confidence votes since 1989 found approximately half of the targeted presidents resigned within a year. That was the case for IU’s 17th President Adam Herbert, ...