If only one candidate ran in the second round, they still had to achieve a majority of the vote.

Any proposal would have to achieve a majority in both houses.

The House was also called on to name a president in 1824, when none of the four candidates achieved an electoral majority.

Since 2005, a single party has achieved a parliamentary majority.

The Republican rebellion showed that the bill could very likely have achieved a majority.

With no candidate achieving a majority of the votes, a second round was held on 27 May 1951.

"New state" advocates had no fear of western states achieving a majority one day.

I therefore hope that we as a group will be achieving a decent majority for a better approach.

But in the final vote it failed to achieve a majority.

The group failed to achieve a majority in Tuesday's elections.