Simple Majority

Simple majority may refer to:

In American and Canadian usage:

  • Majority, a voting requirement of more than half of all ballots cast

Usage elsewhere:

  • Plurality, a voting requirement of more ballots cast for a proposition than for any other option

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or majority:

    “Chaucer sawed life in half and out tumbled hundreds of unpremeditated lives, because he didn’t have the cast-iron grid of a priori coherence that makes reading Goethe, Shakespeare, or Dante an exercise in searching for signs of life among the conventions, compulsions, self-justifications, proofs, wise saws, simple but powerful messages, and poetry.”
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    “There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”
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