absolute majority

noun

1. a number of votes constituting more than half of the number cast.
2. a number of voters constituting more than half of the number registered.

absolute majority

noun

1. a number of votes totalling over 50 per cent, such as the total number of votes or seats obtained by a party that beats the combined opposition Compare relative majority

Example Sentences

Helmut Kohl, Germany’s longest-running leader, never had an absolute majority.

From Ozy

In the absolute majority of cases, Google algorithm updates are too small to notice.

From Search Engine Land

House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.

From The Daily Beast

The House normally requires an absolute majority of 218 but, because of vacancies, that number is currently 217.

From The Daily Beast

Texas requires candidates to win an absolute majority in a primary, so the two will face off in a late-July runoff.

From The Daily Beast

He amazed everyone by winning an historic absolute majority of the statewide vote.

From The Daily Beast

The election resulted in giving an absolute majority to neither the party members nor the supporters of the government.

From Project Gutenberg

The reporter on the election of the 16th proposed declaring all those candidates elected who had received an absolute majority.

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Yet we find that those so assessed form an absolute majority of the whole.

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In these elections the Mensheviki and the Socialist-Revolutionists everywhere gained an absolute majority.

From Project Gutenberg

In practice the requirement of the presence of an absolute majority of members is sometimes disregarded.

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