working majority

Without him, no side can put together a working majority.

So to get a working majority you would need 323 votes.

I'm not sure how many on the Council we managed to get together but it'll be a working majority.

Together the four parties had 191 seats, a working majority of 11.

Bruce moved quickly to secure a working majority for his government.

And we're only one vote away from a working majority in the Senate."

Support by 60 lawmakers is still considered a working majority under Israeli law.

With the support of various independents, they gave the General a solid working majority.

"So we have already crossed 260 seats, and I think this is a working majority," he said.

Since then, Labour has never won a secure working majority at any election.

As with many other nations, the party most able to gain a working majority in the parliament forms a government.

In exchange for giving the government this working majority, they demand an election be held on September 25, 2006.

But at the very least, most Democrats expect their working majority in the chamber to be eroded.

In the short term, various permutations could produce a working majority of 256.

None gave the Tories a hope of being elected with a working majority.

Reform won an additional six seats, gaining a working majority at last.

The working majority achieved by the Conservatives removed that worry.

The Tories would say no and try to get a working majority from the smaller parties instead.

Could any one sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country?

They couldn't even get a working majority after the worst financial crash since the depression.

I still think that he does not have a working majority in the Central Committee."

They were also set to gain 20 to 30 seats in the lower House, where they already have a working majority.

"It makes us a practical working majority, not just an ideological majority."

Despite his landslide electoral victory, he does not have a working majority in the legislature.

Neither side referred to the deal as a coalition, though its effect will be to give the conservatives a working majority in Parliament.