A common political symbolic vote is voting against one's party preferences when said party is in the majority. (politics.stackexchange.com)
Possibly riding high on the relief — rather than out - and - out joy — of winning an important symbolic vote this morning when a motion was put to the conference hall on continuing the coalition's economic policies was carried, a debate where the Lib Dem leader himself summed up, he continued to push coalition strength and struggle over capitulating to his party's leftwing. (totalpolitics.com)