History Main / DecidedByOneVote

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers:

* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'':

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': In the ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' storyline "[[ComicBook/JLATowerOfBabel Tower of Babel]]", the team decides to vote on if they should expel ComicBook/{{Batman}} from the team due to his contingency plans being used by the storyline's BigBad Ra's al Ghul. It's tied 3-3 (ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, ComicBook/WonderWoman and ComicBook/PlasticMan for and ComicBook/TheFlash, ComicBook/GreenLantern and ComicBook/MartianManhunter against} with ComicBook/{{Superman}} as the tie-breaker. [[spoiler:Superman doesn't get to vote -- Batman knew Superman would vote for him to stay, so he decided to take things into his own hands and leaves the team.]]

* In the ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' storyline "[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel Tower of Babel]]", the team decides to vote on if they should expel Franchise/{{Batman}} from the team due to his contingency plans being used by the storyline's BigBad Ra's al Ghul. It's tied 3-3 (ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman and ComicBook/PlasticMan for and ComicBook/TheFlash, ComicBook/GreenLantern and ComicBook/MartianManhunter against} with Franchise/{{Superman}} as the tie-breaker. [[spoiler:Superman doesn't get to vote -- Batman knew Superman would vote for him to stay, so he decided to take things into his own hands and leaves the team.]]

* A rather (in-universe) infuriating version happens in ''Lupo Alberto'' when they hold elections for the farms' leader. Moses (the incumbent leader) gets only his own vote due his tyrannical ways ([[JerkassHasAPoint that are completely necessary due how lazy the farm's inhabitants are]]), [[OnlySaneMan Alberto]] (who's running just to piss off Moses) gets 49 votes by promising to ''continue Moses' policies but dressing them up better'' (that and he's going to use his charisma and not a baseball bat to have the farmers follow his instructions), and Enrico (who's running because he wants the power) gets 49 votes by making outlandish promises (that include ''reaching Mars''). It looks looks like they'll have to vote again between the tied candidates, with Moses as the tiebreaker... Then the neutral ballot judge notices that Glicerina, the farm's fool, ''has voted for all of them and signed his ballot'', and when they have him decide for only one he votes for Enrico because he accepts to change his planned river of milk and honey in one of milk and chocolate. As soon as they calm down enough for the ballot judge to tell them what they can do now, [[EnemyMine Alberto and Moses join forces to try and stop Enrico from running the farm into the ground]].

* [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/05/lost-by-one-vote-rainier-city-council/ In 2023]], an election between Ryan Roth and Damion Green for a seat on the City Council of Rainier, Washington ended with Roth winning 247 to 246. The real kicker? [[DarthWIki/WhatAnIdiot Mr. Green didn't vote in the election!]]

* The ''Website/FamilyGuyFanon'' episode "Do and Die" played this for laughs, where Peter and Quagmire's idea for the Beer Bar Buddies to do Saturday (Peter tight-roping and Quagmire jetskiing) are tied, but Cleveland can't choose between either one, leaving them tied.

* [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/05/lost-by-one-vote-rainier-city-council/ In 2023]], an election between Ryan Roth and Damion Green for a seat on the City Council of Rainier, Washington ended with Roth winning 247 to 246. The real kicker? [[DarthWIki/WhatAnIdiot Green didn't vote in the election!]]

* The plot of the musical ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' hinges on obtaining unanimous ratification for the Declaration of Independence by all 13 colonies (less New York, which abstains – [[RunningGag courteously]] – in the absence of instructions from their legislature). ''Two'' of the delegations are split and require extraordinary means to break ties (though historically all the delegations were larger than depicted). First, Delaware's split is broken by a dramatic night ride back to Philadelphia by Caesar Rodney; Pennsylvania is swung when pro-independence Creator/BenjaminFranklin asks to poll individual delegates, at which point James Wilson changes sides. In the musical, he claims to desire relative anonymity rather than be remembered as the man who prevented American Independence; historically, Wilson did break the tie, but at the time of writing, nobody knew why (as the creators admit). [[DatedHistory More recent research]] shows that he only withheld his "yes" vote because he was making sure his constituents were in favor of it.

* This is how most elections in ''[[WebVideo/YogscastMinecraftSeries Cornerstone]]'' ended in the first few weeks, with various members of the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} urging whoever was left to vote for them as the time started running out (read:everyone else had voted to a stalemate).