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:

    “Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information—never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good—he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face towards the flames.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)