relative majority

Almost all legal acts can be adopted by this relative majority.

By-elections, to fill a single seat, used the first past the post or relative majority electoral system.

Relative majority voting is used, which means that the candidate who receives most of the votes gets the mandate.

The person who receives a relative majority shall be elected President of the Republic.

The territory of each unit would be based on the "national absolute or relative majority" in each municipality.

The village is ethnically mixed and, according to the 2002 census, it has 2,230 inhabitants with a Croatian relative majority.

According to the 1971 census, the town was ethnically mixed, and ethnic Macedonians formed relative majority (41.13 percent).

Article 51 stated that the members of the Volkskammer were to be elected in universal, equal, and secret elections based on the relative majority principle.

Muslim or Jewish "relative majority"

The electoral law states that a participating candidate must obtain a relative majority of at least 40 percent of the vote to win a presidential election.

PSOE managed to achieve a relative majority despite all the corruption and scandals.

The opinion polling for the EU referendum has shown the population is mostly in favour of the accession, but often with only a relative majority.

The town of Kotor Varoš had 10,828 residents and Croat relative majority.

His election was declared invalid on 13 May 2011, as he had been elected only bt a relative majority in Parliament, not an absolute one.

Of the 35 nationalities represented in Transnistria, ethnic Moldovans make up a relative majority of 31.9 percent.

This law also created positions in the lower chamber of congress for opposition parties through proportionality of votes, relative majority, uninominal and plurinominal.

The Serbian Progressive Party received a relative majority of votes but was significantly short of an absolute majority.

Between 1838 and 1876, conflicting estimates exist regarding whether Muslims or Jews constituted a "relative majority" (or plurality) in the city.

The federal territory was divided into 242 electoral districts, each one having one direct candidate being elected according to the relative majority voting, which is still valid.

For in that case he or she would, of course, not be elected, because more votes against than votes in favour do not constitute a relative majority.

In the Croatian local elections, 2005, his list of independent candidates won a relative majority in Osijek and Osijek-Baranja county.

There were several subregions and towns with German-speaking absolute or relative majorities in the interwar Czechoslovakian Republic.

SDS also won elections in Doboj and Vogošća (a Bosniak relative majority).

After ÖVP's loss of relative majority at the regional elections in 2004 he resigned from all political offices in Salzburg.

Mr President, even if the other side of the House does have a relative majority for Recital A, in this case a qualified majority is required.