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For example, in the United States, the Congressional Record has stated: "A party-line vote is one on which a majority of Republicans vote one way and a majority of Democrats vote another. 2. A bipartisan vote is one in which a majority of Republicans and a majority of Democrats vote the same way". [1]
United States presidents typically fill their Cabinets and other appointive positions with people from their own political party.The first Cabinet formed by the first president, George Washington, included some of Washington's political opponents, but later presidents adopted the practice of filling their Cabinets with members of the president's party.
The party structure pushing its representatives in parliament to vote along the line is referred to as party discipline, and efforts to enforce it are referred to as "whipping". Likewise, a party-line vote is one in which most or all of the legislators from each political party voted in accordance with that party's policies.
the voter's party did not field a candidate in a specific race, and the voter wanted to cast a vote in that race for one of the candidates from another party, and/or; the voter did not wish to support the party's candidate in a specific race, but wished to vote for another candidate in that race.
The Senate on Tuesday failed for a second time to advance an in vitro fertilization (IVF) protection bill by a vote of 51-44.. The legislation needed 60 votes to advance. Republican Sens. Susan ...
Similarly, a member of one party may lose their own party's nomination in a primary election but gain enough write-in votes from members of the opposing party to win that party's nomination. For example, in May 2023, Stephen Zappala lost the Democratic primary for Allegheny County District Attorney to challenger Matt Dugan. However, although ...
House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight Wednesday to move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce ...
Philip Letsou, a spokesperson for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, countered that Brown had “sold out his working-class base to toe the Democrat Party line, voting in lockstep ...