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:

    “We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.”
    —Louise Hart (20th century)

    “There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)