(politics) In a Westminster parliamentary system and other democratic systems, a vote by members of a legislative body in which the members are permitted by their respective political parties to vote as they individually see fit, without direction from their political leaders.

(slang, US, derogatory) The rural, white, Southern portion of the US electorate.

The distribution of a material benefit to an individual voter in exchange for support in a ballot

(transitive or intransitive) To expel the holder of an office or other position through an act of voting.

A vote that is held by members calling out aye or nay, used in cases where result is not contested or at least not close and a count is not needed to determine if the motion passes.

An often informal vote to thank some chairman or other officer of an organization for the work he has done on the organization's behalf, and sometimes ending with the presentation of a gift.

(transitive, idiomatic) To defeat (some measure or candidate) by a majority vote.

A motion proposed in a parliament or other assembly to give members the chance to express their confidence in a government; sometimes proposed by a government to counter a vote of no confidence proposed by the opposition; defeat would lead to the resignation of the government.

(sometimes attributive) A system for conducting elections in which voters receive and return ballots via the mail

A voting system in which each voter lists the candidates in order of preference. At each stage the candidate with the fewest votes is excluded and their votes transferred according to the voters' preferences.