The 2024 Connecticut General Assembly listens to Gov. Ned Lamont’s State of the State address. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror The first bedrock rule of legislative procedure violated by the ...

When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill. In practical terms, a majority party needs well over 218 seats to ...

Methods for tallying votes to determine a primary election's outcome include plurality counts and majority counts. Forty-one states require that a candidate receive a plurality of all votes cast in ...

Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who has been battling cancer, missed the vast majority of votes in 2025 and has been absent since the first day of the new Congress. Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) ...

ATHENS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Greek parliament failed to elect the country's next president in the second round of voting on Friday. A majority of 200 votes in the 300-seat parliament was needed for ...

The Joint Committee of Parliament scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Wednesday adopted its draft report and the amended version of the proposed law with a majority vote, JPC chairperson ...

Nixon in 1968. And though Trump won the popular vote, he did not secure a majority, coming just shy with 49.9 percent of the vote, according to certified state results compiled by the Associated ...

Chad’s ruling party took the majority of votes in last month’s parliamentary election, which was boycotted by the main opposition and which analysts had said would consolidate the president's ...

Chad’s governing party has taken the majority of seats in last month ... Mahamat Deby eventually won last year’s disputed presidential vote. The vote, which also included municipal and ...

MAJORITY OF BOJ BOARD MEMBERS SET TO APPROVE RATE HIKE NEXT WEEK, NIKKEI SAYS ...