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.

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How to use absolute majority in a sentence

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

    Obamaville | Don Rose | November 6, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • The election resulted in giving an absolute majority to neither the party members nor the supporters of the government.

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

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

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

    Bolshevism | John Spargo
  • In practice the requirement of the presence of an absolute majority of members is sometimes disregarded.

    The Governments of Europe | Frederic Austin Ogg

British Dictionary definitions for absolute majority

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

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