A 25 percent vote was needed to request the meeting.
In all cases, veteran and modern, an 80 percent vote was needed for approval.
In his school, he got the 75 percent vote.
His version, which is given less chance of passing, would require a 60 percent vote in each house to increase taxes.
The sometimes violent battle over the measure ended with a vote of 56 to 44 percent against.
Indeed, the alliance called the 57-to-43 percent vote against the initiative a victory.
An election was held 10 days later which the union won by a vote of 75 percent to 25 percent.
It passed by a vote of 59 percent to 41 percent.
The last time around, in 1996, he sailed past his Democratic challenger with a winning vote of 69 percent to 31.
The plan was approved Friday by a 71 percent vote of the bank's 37 million shares outstanding.