Between 1986 and 2000, 671 local initiatives concerning growth were put to the vote.
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Between 1971 and 1997, of the 68 initiatives put to the vote, only five were adopted.
David Cameron will back redrawing boundaries when the matter is put to the vote, probably next year, but shorn of Lib Dem support the measure is unlikely to be passed.
Diplomats say the new resolution, which may well be amended in talks with other countries once draft versions are circulated, is not likely to be put to the vote until early in March.
Think BIG Sacramento, which is shepherding the city's plans to hold on to the Kings, is set to put the plan to a vote before the Sacramento City Council late this month.
Even before its amendments to the charter are put to a vote, the government has taken steps to encourage family counseling programs.
On January 12, the United States and its allies were finally able to put the issue to a vote at the UN Security Council.
They then refused to put the question to a vote of the full assembly, fearing that they might lose.
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The council's agreement to put the resolution to a vote just 48 hours later signaled that it would almost certainly have the support of all 15 council members.
Eight adult comedies and six children's animation series will be put to the public vote.
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Fourteen pilot shows - including Alpha House and Zombieland - are to be put to the public vote on Lovefilm and Amazon.com.
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The ConservativeHome website, which is popular with grass roots activists, urges Mr Cameron to commit to three things: to renegotiate the UK's relationship with Europe, to put the outcome of the negotiations to a public vote and to reassure the public that a referendum will be held by introducing legislation before the next election.
Germany says it will not allow Bulgaria or Romania to join the EU's passport-free Schengen zone if the issue is put to a vote in the EU on Thursday.
Accordingly, I shall put the draft resolution to the vote now.
And Gergely Gulyas, the deputy leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group, told the right-wing daily Magyar Nemzet that the government saw no reason to put off the vote despite "domestic and international kerfuffle".
He could also go the longer route and let other sponsors collect signatures to put the vote on a November ballot.
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That's the day a shareholder's resolution to break up the 138-year-old conglomerate will be put to a vote at the annual shareholders' meeting outside the company's headquarters in Leverkusen, Germany.
The prisoner vote bill will now undergo detailed pre-legislative scrutiny by a parliamentary committee, and Mr Grayling said he could not be sure when the options would be put to a vote in the Commons.
On Greece, the move by the Greek Prime Minister to put the European debt deal to a vote has caused chaos, as I'm sure you know, this morning both for him and his government, and also from markets around the world.
Mr Faymann's first move was to shift his party's position on Europe by calling for referendums on any future EU treaty, despite the fact that Mr Gusenbauer had just refused to put the Lisbon treaty to a popular vote.
This would create an opportunity for the Republicans outflank the Democrats by demanding that each major element of the plan be put to a direct vote of the people in a national referendum.
Sullivan largely put a stop to the vote because the proposal was improperly bundled.
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To put the vote on the ballot the traditional way, Mr Brown needs a supermajority (two-thirds) in the legislature.
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The Assembly expects to put the measure up for a vote in February, and it would need to pass both houses by August to get on the ballot.
Should circumstances change, should the anti-Putin opposition unite squarely behind a single candidate like Zyuganov or Mironov, then Putin would be forced to put the infernal vote-rigging machine into overdrive.
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Mr Nuttall's motion calls for a referendum by May 2013 and says the public should have three options put to them in the nationwide vote - keeping the status quo, leaving the EU or reforming the terms of the UK's membership of the European Union.
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Labour and the Lib Dems have said plans to renegotiate the UK's membership and put it to a public vote was a gamble and against the national interest.
The Judiciary Committee decision by a party-line vote of 10-8 cleared the way for the Democratic-crafted background check measure to be debated and put to a vote in the full Senate.
When you look at the pathetic support for Bowles-Simpson when it was actually put to a vote in the House last March -- 16 Republicans and 22 Democrats supported it -- you see why cynicism is always a safe bet in Washington.
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