majoritarianadj.n.

1918 J. Buchan Nelson's Hist. War XX. 118 Early in June came the delegation of the German Majority Socialists, which included—besides Scheidemann, the Majoritarian leader—that Hermann Müller who, on the eve of the declaration of war, had invited the French Socialists to vote against war credits.

1957 Britannica Bk. of Year 512/1 Some new words arose from politics and world affairs... Majoritarian was an adjective meaning ruled by the beliefs of the majority.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 May 37/4 It must be remembered that ours is not a simple majoritarian democracy, for the Constitution recognizes that the individuals have moral rights against the majority.

1987 Polit. Q. 58 235 I am hardened to being assailed as a ‘majoritarian cad’ when pointing to some of the advantages of our present electoral system.

1965 Listener 21 Jan. 113/3 The fateful divide in the pre-revolutionary Russian Social-Democratic movement between the Mensheviks (i.e., minoritarians) and the Bolsheviks (i.e., majoritarians)..went far deeper than a purely political argument.

1974 H. H. Baerwald Japan's Parl. iv. 111 The majoritarians lost precious hours.