Below you will find example sentences with "absolute majority". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Absolute Majority in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: majority
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 10
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.5 words

Words in this phrase

absolute majority

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • absolute can mean: Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional. Frequent word
  • majority can mean: More than half (50%) of some group. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

although an absolute majority may be 1× commanded an absolute majority efforts to 1× gain an absolute majority of parliament 1× gains an absolute majority of votes 1× get an absolute majority 1× had an absolute majority in 2014 1× hold an absolute majority in the 1× holding an absolute majority in parliament 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

according to article 1× according to iraqi 1× although most projections 1× constitutional amendments were 1× costa s socialist 1× election requires an 1×

Common sentence endings:

a parliamentary majority 2× an absolute majority 2× across the nation 1× and final one 1× becoming prime minister 1× ethnic votes intensified 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

party 9× votes 9× seats 7× president 5× parliament 4× given 3× parliamentary 3× unless 3× candidate 3× wins 2× election 2× vote 2×

Related phrases

senate majority majority leader simple majority vast majority majority vote absolute value house majority parliamentary majority absolute basis absolute best

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around majority:

simple majority 15× vast majority 11× majority vote 10× house majority 7×

Just before it in the phrase index:

absolute joy absolute best absolute basis absentee voting absentee ballots absentee ballot

Just after it in the phrase index:

absolute maximum absolute truth absolute value absolutely brilliant absolutely nothing academic achievement

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

absolute value absolute basis absolute best absolute joy absolute maximum absolute truth

Same ending:

senate majority simple majority vast majority house majority parliamentary majority

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "absolute majority" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as although an absolute majority may be, commanded an absolute majority efforts to, party, votes and seats stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with senate majority, majority leader, simple majority, simple majority, vast majority and majority vote, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with absolute majority

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The absolute majority of tertiary graduates were aged between 20 and 29 years (72.0%). (15 words)

UDP working president Paul Lyngdoh had recently exuded confidence the UDP would get an absolute majority. (16 words)

In the 2008 Assembly polls, the Congress secured 100 seats, one short of securing an absolute majority. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

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. (40 words)

According to Iraqi law, if a candidate fails to gain an absolute majority of parliament seats, which is 50 per cent plus one, or 166 votes, another round of direct secret ballot will be held for the competing candidates. (39 words)

Ministers are selected from among the members of the House of Representatives, which usually consists of 65 members unless bonus seats are given to a party which gains an absolute majority of votes but not a Parliamentary majority. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

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.

According to Article 103(1), "unless no such majority exists", interpreted by the president as "unless no such party exists" (although an absolute majority may be formed by one party, a coalition of parties or an alliance).

As in other non-PR systems, the party or coalition which wins a majority of seats will often not have the support of an absolute majority of voters across the nation.

Constitutional amendments were made voted and made effective in January 1987 which guaranteed that the party with an absolute majority of votes would be given a majority of parliamentary seats in order to govern.

Election requires an absolute majority of votes; if no candidate gains a majority, a second round is held between the top two vote getters.

Ministers are selected from among the members of the House of Representatives, which usually consists of 65 members unless bonus seats are given to a party which gains an absolute majority of votes but not a Parliamentary majority.

Plural voting is distinguished from a majority voting system, in which, to win, a candidate must receive an absolute majority of votes — i.e., more votes than all other candidates combined.

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The president nominates the prime minister after consultation with the party holding an absolute majority in Parliament or, if there is no such majority, with all the parties in Parliament.

Costa’s Socialist Party won an absolute majority, but they weren’t facing a center-right bloc as galvanized as Spain’s PP.

In the 2008 Assembly polls, the Congress secured 100 seats, one short of securing an absolute majority.

PP also won an absolute majority in the region and capital of Madrid, with Isabel Díaz Ayuso being reelected as Madrid’s regional president.

The absolute majority of tertiary graduates were aged between 20 and 29 years (72.0%).

The definitive version of the law was adopted on Friday with support from the governing Socialists, who hold an absolute majority in the chamber.

UDP working president Paul Lyngdoh had recently exuded confidence the UDP would get an absolute majority.

With a change of demographics after 2006, it was accepted that since no single ethnic group now commanded an absolute majority, efforts to attract cross-over ethnic votes intensified.

According to Iraqi law, if a candidate fails to gain an absolute majority of parliament seats, which is 50 per cent plus one, or 166 votes, another round of direct secret ballot will be held for the competing candidates.

Although most projections show the RN falling short of an absolute majority, hordes of riot police descended on the city to quell left-wing violence.

Only one week ago, some polls had indicated the RN could win just such an absolute majority, with Le Pen's 28-year-old lieutenant Jordan Bardella becoming prime minister.

The BJP had an absolute majority in 2014 and 2019 and in both elections it had promised a uniform civil code in its manifesto but it did not legislate it or produce a draft.

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