conscience vote or free vote is a type of vote in a legislative body where legislators are allowed to vote according to their own personal conscience...

A conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. Conscience...

recognition of Indigenous Australians. Only backbenchers have been allowed a conscience vote on the issue, while members of the Coalition Shadow Ministry are obliged...

agreement for a conscience vote in the Senate and possibly the House of Representatives (the question of the government permitting a vote in the House was...

survey results. The Coalition government allowed its parliamentarians a conscience vote on the legislation. The opposition Australian Labor Party supported...

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of a party are granted a conscience vote or free vote, in which party discipline is waived, and given members are free to vote to their individual preference...

to see the party introduce a conscience vote to parliament through a private member's bill, rather than a binding vote. Despite Gillard, who had previously...

February 2022). "National Party will allow conscience vote on conversion therapy ban, after block voting against it under Judith Collins". Stuff. Archived...

chamber to vote by taking sides (termed a personal vote) are rarely used, except for conscience votes. Instead, one of the party's whips votes on behalf...

Pregnancy Act by the Parliament of Queensland on 17 October 2018 in a conscience vote. Before the Termination of Pregnancy Act took effect on 3 December...

from the CDU. In 2017, the Bundestag voted to legalise same-sex marriage. Merkel had allowed the conscience vote to happen despite her personal objections...

passed via a conscience vote of 14–5 on 14 November 2010. It subsequently passed in the Legislative Assembly, also via a conscience vote, by 24–15 on...

Australia 19 May 1960. The Marriage Act 1961 was eventually passed in a conscience vote on 22 March 1961, with an attempt by Victorian Senator George Hannan...

reject it. In the majority of cases, voting takes place along party lines, although there are occasional conscience votes. The Senate maintains a number of...

freedom of conscience vote on issues to do with the referendum", on 21 April, Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar launched a Fine Gael "Vote Yes" campaign...

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...

political factions within a political party. Political factions can represent voting blocs. Political factions require a weaker party discipline. Research indicates...

members of the US Congress) on a two-dimensional map based on their roll-call voting, with one of the two dimensions corresponding to the left-right spectrum...

she hoped the matter would be put to a conscience vote. Consequently, other party leaders organised for a vote to be held in the last week of June during...

questionable circumstances. He further argues that he cannot, in good conscience, vote guilty when he feels there is reasonable doubt of the boy's guilt and...

undermines that. He called for a conscience vote in parliament on the issue. He was reported to have abstained from the final vote on the Marriage Amendment...

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Women in a reshuffle. In 2012, Collins voted for same-sex marriage when Labor politicians were given a conscience vote. In 2013, Collins gained additional...

cross-party conscience vote, after Premier and Liberal Party leader Dominic Perrottet indicated he would grant Liberal members a conscience vote. The legislation...

exercise power by voting and deliberation. In a direct democracy, the citizenry as a whole directly forms a participatory governing body and vote directly on...

Leadership convention Party discipline Conscience vote Crossing the floor Party discipline Party line Party-line vote Party switching Whip Party systems Coalitions...

pragmatic, ideological, or otherwise; however, the number of people that vote for centrist political parties is a statistical anomaly, in part due to the...

Leadership convention Party discipline Conscience vote Crossing the floor Party discipline Party line Party-line vote Party switching Whip Party systems Coalitions...

agreement for a conscience vote in the Senate and possibly the House of Representatives (the question of the government permitting a vote in the House was...