The house was deadlocked with 138 ayes to 138 noes on dropping the scheme.
He subsequently voted to table his own challenge; the tally to table was 210 ayes, 193 noes.
The expression, present and voting refers to those who vote for ayes and for noes.
I felt my noes were more final; my hand chopped firmly through the air, my head turned away.
Well, there were 15 'yeses' to five 'noes', three times more 'yeses' than 'noes', and seven abstentions.
What makes the situation especially delicate is that this ‘no solution’ for the financial perspective comes after two ‘noes’ in two national referenda.
The point is whether one counts the shopkeepers who are too apathetic to vote as among the ayes or the noes on such an issue.
When they voted on that recommendation, there were six ayes and six noes.
