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Absolute majority   /ˈæbsəlˌut mədʒˈɔrəti/   Listen
Absolute majority

noun
1.
(elections) more than half of the votes.  Synonym: majority.






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... he had voted in the Constituent Assembly, he at first decided to take no part in the campaign. But soon seeing that he was thus increasing the chances of Louis Bonaparte, and that if, as was not at all probable, the latter should not obtain an absolute majority of the votes, the Assembly would not fail to elect General Cavaignac, he espoused, for the sake of form, the candidacy of Raspail, who was supported by his friends in the Socialist Committee. Charles Delescluze, the ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon



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