No confidence vote
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A no confidence vote is a vote taken against the ruling party or coalition in some government systems. If the ruling party is not able to stave off the vote, then they are considered to have lost their mandate to govern and new elections are called.
Examples of countries that use a government system that has no confidence votes are Great Britain and Israel.