Editing Loss of supply (section)

==Examples of the threat or loss of supply==
* In 1909, the [[United Kingdom|UK]] [[House of Lords]] voted against the "[[People's Budget]]", precipitating two general elections and the [[Parliament Act 1911]], which limited the power of the (then mostly hereditary) Lords, in particular preventing them from blocking money bills for more than a month.
* In the [[1975 Australian constitutional crisis]], the elected [[Australian Senate|Senate]] delayed voting on a bill to authorize supply for the government demanding that the [[Prime Minister of Australia|Prime Minister]], [[Gough Whitlam]], call an election for the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]. Whitlam was dismissed by the [[Governor-General of Australia|Governor-General]], Sir [[John Kerr (Governor-General)|John Kerr]], on the basis of his refusal to either resign or request a dissolution.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jenny |last=Hocking |title=The Dismissal Dossier |publisher=Melbourne University Press |year=2015}}</ref>
* In December 1979 in Canada, the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] government of [[Joe Clark]] was defeated on a budget vote.  Clark called the [[1980 Canadian federal election]] as a result. [[Pierre Trudeau]] and the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberals]] won a majority of seats in the [[House of Commons of Canada]]. Clark resigned as prime minister and was replaced by Trudeau.
* In September 1980, the [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Italian Chamber of Deputies]] rejected a budget bill proposed by the [[second Cossiga government]] in a 298–297 vote taken by [[voting methods in deliberative assemblies#Balloting|secret ballot]]. [[Francesco Cossiga]] consequently resigned as prime minister and [[Forlani government|was replaced]] by [[Arnaldo Forlani]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://legislature.camera.it/_dati/leg08/lavori/stenografici/sed0213/sed0213.pdf|title=Resoconto seduta 27 settembre 1980|language=it|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref>
* [[Garret FitzGerald]]'s government was defeated in a budget vote in [[Dáil Éireann]] in the [[Republic of Ireland]] in 1982. FitzGerald immediately sought and was granted a Dáil dissolution.<ref>Dáil debates [http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0332/D.0332.198201270052.html Vol.332 cc.380–414] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922041524/http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0332/D.0332.198201270052.html |date=2012-09-22 }} [http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0333/D.0333.198203090002.html Vol.333 cc.3–4] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607125057/http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0333/D.0333.198203090002.html |date=2011-06-07 }}</ref>
*On 9 March 2011, the [[Legislative Council (Hong Kong)|Legislative Council]] of [[Hong Kong]] blocked a resolution for provisional appropriations, which, before 2011, had always been a formality. Resolutions for provisional appropriations had never been voted by [[Division of the assembly|division]] until 2011. The government decided, on the following day, to table another resolution with a minor change being made merely for the sake of circumventing procedural requirements that a negatived question cannot be tabled again.
*On 10 December 2012, the [[Parliament of Malta|Maltese Parliament]] rejected the budget bill for the 2013 fiscal year in a 35–34 vote taken by [[voting methods in deliberative assemblies#Regular methods|rising vote]]. Prime Minister [[Lawrence Gonzi]] consequently advised the [[President of Malta|President]] to dissolve Parliament and called elections for [[2013 Maltese general election|9 March]] of the following year.
* On 13 February 2019, the [[First government of Pedro Sánchez|Spanish Government]] lost a vote on a budget bill 191–158, thanks to two allies of the Government, [[Republican Left of Catalonia]] and the [[Catalan European Democratic Party]], siding against it. A [[April 2019 Spanish general election|snap election]] was immediately called, which eventually led to a new election of a second Sánchez Government. Both of those parties eventually sided with the new Government to pass the 2021 Budget.