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absolute majority

a number of votes totalling over 50 per cent, such as the total number of votes or seats obtained by a party that beats the combined opposition
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"There is (committee) report because it was not approved by the absolute majority."
Early Monday morning, Turkey's Supreme Election Council announced that Erdogan won an absolute majority in the presidential election.
Mr Cameron feared that he would once more fail to obtain a absolute majority in the 2015 election, so offered the referendum bribe to take back Conservative support lost to UKIP.
Together they would have more than the 176 seats needed for an absolute majority, the exit polls from state broadcaster TVE and the ABC newspaper and Cope radio station showed.
Official results released by 13 November gave the National League for Democracy an absolute majority of seats in both chambers of the national parliament with 487 seats.
Without an absolute majority, the party will need to form a coalition government and a Syriza source said it would turn once again to the small right-wing Independent Greeks party.
DAVID Cameron has returned to 10 Downing Street to prepare for another term as Prime Minister, as the General Election put his Conservative Party on the brink of securing an absolute majority in the House of Commons.
Varanasi: Citing the era of "fractured verdicts" in the past few decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that it was only after the installation of his government with an "absolute majority" that India has begun to get its "due" on the international stage.
WITH most exit polls predicting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would emerge as the single largest party in the Maharashtra Assembly elections but may fall short of the magic figure of 145, party's state unit chief Devendra Fadnavis exuded confidence of gaining absolute majority and ruled out taking support from any other party, including the Shiv Sena.
Erdogan won the country's first direct presidential election in the first round Sunday, an unofficial vote count showed, ensuring he remains at the country's helm for at least another five years."It is understood that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won an absolute majority of the votes," election commission head Sadi Guven said in Ankara.
As expected, none could reach the magic figure of 50+1, or an absolute majority, necessitating a run-off vote, said the official, who requested not to be named, because he was not authorised to speak to the media about the outcome.
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