| 单词 | absolute majority |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabsolute majority absolute majority n. [compare French majorité absolue (1789)] a majority comprising more than half of all votes cast or (rarely) more than half of the total number of registered voters; a government majority comprising more than half of all the seats in a legislature. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > the numerical result of voting > numbers of votes received by one candidate simple majority1689 absolute majority1782 plurality1803 qualified majority1916 1782 Anglia Rediviva iv. 55 He appointed ninety-eight of these Centuries to the patricians and leading men, which was giving them an absolute majority of the whole by three. 1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 169 It is called la majorité absolue, the absolute or clear majority. 1848 Southern Literary Messenger Dec. 758/1 For the election by universal suffrage to be valid the elect must have received the absolute majority of the votes given. 1910 Rep. Royal Comm. Electoral Syst. 3 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5163) XXVI. 295 A candidate, to be returned at the first election must receive an absolute majority of the valid votes cast. 1957 L. F. R. Williams State of Israel 158 No party has yet succeeded in gaining an absolute majority. 2005 New Internationalist Mar. 5/1 Largely thanks to these heralds of the apocalypse, the Left won by absolute majority, without a runoff. < as lemmas |
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