absolute majority

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• Electing a party that an absolute majority of the citizens wants would certainly demonstrate how that works in our modern age.

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• The Panamanian constitution requires neither an absolute majority nor provides for any type of run-off in presidential or legislative elections.

  Academic text (1993)

• If that trend continues just a bit more, an absolute majority of Americans may soon call themselves conservatives.

  Blog text (21)

• The absolute majority of Hizbullah's support is found within the Shiite community.

  Academic text (2003)

• Some nontraditional inroads occurred here, too, although the Liberal Party gained an absolute majority in all 32 departments.

  Academic text (2000)

• The procedures governing nominations and platform adoption require that an absolute majority of delegates formally approve the nominees and the platform.

  Academic text (2003)

• The migrant worker population is an absolute majority in Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

  Academic text (2016)

• For the government, the idea offers the promise of passing constitutional reforms in Congress by absolute majority vote and avoiding the constitutionally mandated three-fifths majority needed to pass amendments in two separate rounds of voting.

  Academic text (1998)

• There are 538 electoral votes in all, but a candidate only needs an absolute majority of the votes—the aforementioned 270.

  Blog text (4)

• In the recent election, the mayor secured an absolute majority of the votes, ensuring his victory in the first round.

Synonyms

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majority

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More than half of the votes in an election that decide the result

counts over half of all votes cast rather than a decision threshold

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