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Majority

Majority meaning

More than half (50%) of some group. | In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined. | Legal adulthood, age of majority.

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It is a surplus majority coalition without a majority party, that is, a coalition with parties that are not necessary for a majority, hence the term тАЬsurplus majorityтАЭ, sometimes called a surplus majority coalition.

House Majority Leader Sean Quinlan, (left to right) Majority Floor Leader Dee Morikawa, Speaker Nadine K. Nakamura, Vice Speaker Linda Ichiyama and Majority Caucus Leader Chris Todd make up the new leadership of the Hawaiʻi State House of Representatives.

While there are 157 Christian-majority countries and 57 Muslim-majority ones in the world, Israel is the sole Jewish-majority nation.

However, where a party wins an absolute majority of votes, but does not have a majority of seats, that party is given additional seats to ensure a parliamentary majority.

In the new Parliament, the election for President is repeated immediately with a 3/5 majority required for the initial vote, an absolute majority for the second one (151 votes) and a simple majority for the third and final one.

Along with changing the threshold for approval from a simple majority to a three-fifths majority, the new resolution would also change the requirements for signature gathering to even put a constitutional amendment issue on the ballot.

But if they majority is right simply because they are the majority, how does any real truth every make its way to the surface?

But Partition takes “star-crossed lovers” to a new level as violence takes hold of Lahore, threatening to leave no person untouched by the impending split that would result in Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

Even a majority of Democrats (69%) expressed concern about Biden's age, although a vast majority (88%) said they would still probably support him if he's the nominee.

Even though the new government lacks a majority, there’s still a majority on the left-center side of Norwegian politics.

Following the protest by hill-majority Kuki tribes against the valley majority Meitei tribes over their demand for the Scheduled Tribes (ST) policy, both have witnessed their worship places demolished by the mob violence.

He said in seat negotiations for the upcoming state elections, Gerakan will continue to field candidates in non-Malay majority seats while the Malay majority seats will be contested by Bersatu and PAS.

He’s had this hideous possible majority in the United States Senate and only a very small majority in the House.

If we are to maintain – rightly that the support of a majority of the voting population is enough to maintain our place within the UK, then we also need to accept that a majority is the measure for other issues too.

In most of the Southern States a majority of the whole people of all colors are neither slaves nor masters, while in the Northern a large majority are neither hirers nor hired.

In spite of its victory and electoral majority in the number of governorships and a clear parliamentary majority after the 2023 elections, however, Mr. Tinubu now recognizes that he cannot take the pre eminence of the APC for granted.

Look, the simple answer is that we are a majority shareholder, like any other majority shareholder.

Majority of Adamawa citizens have decided to continue with the fresh air government, hence the majority of votes gotten by Governor Fintiri at the polls.

Republicans are using the crime report to blast Democrats ahead of the 2023 election, when Democrats are protecting a thin majority in the Senate, and Republicans are defending their narrow majority in the House.

So, that's to our benefit because going forward, we expect that the majority of our clients will be these larger health care organizations, certainly the majority of patients that we have on our platform will come from the large clients.