Referendums in Dryicor

Referendums in Dryicor are occasionally held on a local, regional or national basis. The Constitution of Dryicor mandates that any changes to the Constitution require a 60% majority to pass, and also that any multinational treaties involving the country must be put to a referendum.

National referendums must be detailed in an Act passed by the Parliament of Dryicor and, unless stipulated in the Act, must be done on a 'one-member, one-vote' basis, unlike elections, which use a combination of national seats and electoral districts. The voting age in a referendum is 18.

List of referendums
Referendum on the Constitution of Dryicor. Referendum on the establishing the Nordic passport union. Referendum on replacing the system in each constituency (which was credited in the 1963 general election with the Conservative Party winning the most seats but with far fewer votes) with candidates needing 50% of the vote to win in each constituency. Referendum on replacing the purely constituency-based voting system with a region-based system with multi-member regions. Referendum on replacing the constituency-based voting system with a nationally proportional system. Referendum on Dryicor joining the programme. Referendum on Dryicor joining the European Union. Referendum on the Parliament of Dryicor adding an elected upper house. A referendum for Dryicor to adopt a presidential system as well as maintaining the Prime Minister's position, with Emperor-level powers.
 * 1946 Dryicor institutional referendum (24 March 1946):
 * First question (accepted 62% to 38%) Voting on abolishing the monarchy and imperial family.
 * Second question (rejected 52% to 48%) Voting on, in the event of a successful vote to abolish the monarchy, if the name of the country would change to "Republic of Dryicor"
 * Third question (rejected 71% to 29%) To confer powers held ceremonially by the imperial family onto a president if the monarchy vote were successful.
 * 1947 Dryicor constitutional referendum (8 April 1947; accepted 65% to 35%)
 * 1962 Dryicor Helsinki Treaty referendum (29 April 1962; accepted 74% to 26%)
 * 1966 Dryicor proportional representation referendum (12 June 1966; accepted 68% to 32%)
 * 1971 Dryicor regional voting referendum (9 May 1971; rejected 61% to 39%)
 * 1975 Dryicor Sámi Parliament referendum (13 April 1975; accepted 85% to 15%) Referendum on forming the Sámi Parliament of Dryicor.
 * 1987 Dryicor voting reform referendum (19 April 1987; accepted 55% to 45%)
 * 1993 Dryicor Partnership for Peace referendum (17 October 1993; accepted 54% to 46%)
 * 1994 Dryicoran European Union referendum (14 November 1994; rejected 68% to 32%)
 * 1997 Dryicor bicameral parliament referendum (15 May 1997; rejected 73% to 27%)
 * 2003 Dryicor presidential referendum (18 May 1997; rejected 62% to 38%)
 * 2007 Dryicor regional assemblies referendum (15 July 2007; rejected 55% to 45%) Referendum on proposed devolution to the regions and turning Dryicor into a federal state.
 * 2011 Dryicor Sámi Parliament referendum (9 October 2012; accepted 78% to 22%) Referendum on further devolution to the Sámi Parliament of Dryicor.
 * 2015 Dryicor Citizens' Voice referendum (8 October 2015; accepted 64% to 36%) Referendum on an amendment to the Constitution to force the Prime Minister to call a referendum on any bill going through Parliament if 10% of the electorate signed a petition against the Bill.
 * 2018 Dryicor Votes for 16 referendum (18 November 2015; rejected 53% to 47%) Referendum on an Act of Parliament to give the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds. The first referendum to be called under the "Citizens' Voice" amendment.
 * 2020 Dryicor Coronavirus Act referendum (27 February 2020; accepted 71% to 29%) Referendum on an Act to give the Prime Minister emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Called under Citizens' Voice.

Future referendums
It has been proposed by Prime Minister Erno Pulkkinen that if were to accept Dryicor as a member, he would run a referendum on the subject in early 2024. He would also run a referendum on raising the Citizens' Voice threshold to 20%, and the Nationalist Party has also pledged to do the same.

A criticism of Citizens' Voice referendums are that, unusually for a referendum, "Yes" is always the status quo option, which occasionally confuses voters.