The Alliance Party redesignated themselves as Unionists to provide Trimble with the cross-party votes he required under the rules of the Assembly.
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That meant only nine Popular Party votes were needed to win the vote, which called for more weapons inspectors and opposed military action.
Analysts said the ruling Awami League was under pressure as failure to secure funding for the bridge would cost the party votes at elections, likely to be held in late 2013.
Geoffrey Vero, chairman of the Surrey Heath Conservative Constituency Association, who wants the bill to be delayed, told the BBC's Daily Politics it was costing the party votes, and some supporters were no longer prepared to help out with canvassing.
Opponents of the PRI said they have video and photo evidence of the party buying votes through thousands of cards that could be redeemed for products at a chain of supermarkets.
There are still 11 seats held by a third party that traditionally votes with ARENA and a remaining 6 third party seats.
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And you saw each of the things that I mentioned that went through Congress legislatively done not by the votes of simply one party but by the votes of both parties.
The unions have attempted to regain some of their influence within the Labour Party, but they have found that although they can win votes at Party conferences, they cannot necessarily change policy.
Mrs Ciller's party competes with Mr Yilmaz's Motherland Party for the votes of conservative-minded Turks.
Japan's small and medium-size enterprises provide 80% of the jobs and most of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's votes.
The centre-left's victory in the general election of 1996 shook Mr Fini, though his own party got 6m votes.
In 2010 she voted with Democrats on party-line votes only 60% of the time, according to a Congressional Quarterly study.
Although his party won more votes than any other in December's municipal elections, it failed to win a single provincial capital.
This pension bill passed the Arizona legislature on party-line votes, which in most cases would not be an indicator of political progress.
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The minority centre-right government formed after the 2001 election by Kjell Magne Bondevik needs the Progress Party's votes to stay in power.
But due to the strong showing of Beppe Grillo's anti-establishment Five-Star Movement, no party won enough votes to command a clear majority in the Senate.
Although Mr Reinfeldt's Moderate Party captured more votes than his three partners combined, he might not demand such a mathematically exact share of cabinet seats.
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Others see it as a concerted bid by the Congress party to win votes in India's caste-ridden largest state, Uttar Pradesh, where elections are due next year.
Three of the four committees - Armed Services, Intelligence and Homeland Security - passed watered down versions of the resolutions on nearly uniform party-line votes, drastically narrowing the scope of documents to be provided by the administration.
And even though President Bush can get a budget through the Senate with the 51 votes his party now has (budget debates are protected from the usual Senate rules that require 60 votes to do anything), he still has to get the tax-cut bill passed by a committee where there are equal numbers of Democrats.
The amendment allows party leaders to sack any member of parliament who votes against his party or breaks its rules.
This has won her admiration and respect - if not all the votes her party needed.
MPs, elected according to the proportion of votes their party gets on a regional basis.
In Lula's first term in Brazil leaders of his Workers Party resorted to buying votes in Congress.
The ruling coalition, led by the Congress party, has the votes to push its presidential candidate through.
However, they are understood and embraced by Tea Party and social conservative votes.
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But if Mr Erdogan is excluded, his party could draw sympathy votes.
The decision was also welcomed by the Trinamool Congress, a West Bengal-based party that contributes 19 votes to the ruling coalition in New Delhi.
Earlier on Thursday the party abstained from confidence votes in parliament.
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