Antonyms for absolute majorityab·so·lute ma·jor·i·ty

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1. majority, absolute majoritynoun

   (elections) more than half of the votes

   Synonyms:
   bulk, legal age, majority

How to use absolute majority in a sentence?

1. John C. Calhoun:

   The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.

2. Wolfgango Piccoli:

   While an early election could be helpful in terms of removing hardliners from a Tsipras-led Syriza and, possibly, forcing the party to adopt a more centrist stance, the most likely outcome will be another fragmented parliament in which no party controls an absolute majority, this means that the 'new' Syriza – the party likely to win the largest amount of votes and seats – will have to strike another coalition deal to govern.

3. Simona Levi:

   Where there is no absolute majority and a fragile equilibrium of power, politicians are obliged to listen to the concerns of the people.

4. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya:

   The order to introduce troops into Ukraine is not only an order to send them to certain death, it is also an order to all Belarusians to give up their independence and their future, despite the Russian propaganda, the attitude of the Belarusian society to the war is very different from the Russian one. The absolute majority of Belarusians, regardless of their political preferences, are unequivocally against the war with Ukraine or any war involving Belarus.

5. Franco Pavoncello:

   The only one who has a chance [for an absolute majority] is Berlusconi the immortal and his coalition, if you don’t get that you must start talking to the other groups and see if you can put together some strange bedfellows in a rather strange bed.

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