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:
“Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)