majority vote system

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• majority vote — A vote of more than half for a candidate for office or a proposition submitted to it voters at an election. Necessarily the vote received by the winning candidate where there are only two candidates. 26 Am J2d Elect § 309. Of electors, the choice …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• vote — [[t]vo͟ʊt[/t]] ♦ votes, voting, voted 1) N COUNT A vote is a choice made by a particular person or group in a meeting or an election. He walked to the local polling centre to cast his vote... The government got a massive majority well over 400… …   English dictionary

• vote — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 choice/decision made by voting ADJECTIVE ▪ electoral ▪ majority ▪ huge, massive (esp. BrE), overwhelming, resounding (esp. BrE) …   Collocations dictionary

• Majority rule — Majority Rules redirects here. For Canadian comedy show, see Majority Rules!. Part of the Politics series Electoral methods …   Wikipedia

• Vote-by-mail in Oregon — Vote by mail ballot from a 2006 special election The U.S. state of Oregon established vote by mail as the standard mechanism for voting with Ballot Measure 60, a citizen s initiative, in 1998. The measure made Oregon the first state in the United …   Wikipedia

• Vote splitting — is an electoral effect in which the distribution of votes among multiple similar candidates reduces the chance of winning for any of the similar candidates, and increases the chance of winning for a dissimilar candidate.Vote splitting most easily …   Wikipedia

• Majority Judgment — Part of the Politics series Electoral methods Single winner …   Wikipedia

• Majority criterion — The majority criterion is a single winner voting system criterion, used to compare such systems. The criterion states that if one candidate is preferred by a majority (more than 50%) of voters, then that candidate must win .[1] Some methods that… …   Wikipedia

• vote of confidence — ▪ government       procedure used by members of a legislative body (generally the lower house in a bicameral system) to remove a government (the prime minister and his cabinet) from office. To be successful, the procedure, which does not apply to …   Universalium

• vote — ▪ I. vote vote 2 noun 1. [countable] when a group of people vote in order to decide or choose something: • The results of the vote were surprising 80% of workers favoured strike action. • Creditors will take a vote on the reorganization plan… …   Financial and business terms

• Majority leader — In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. In the federal Congress, the role differs slightly in the two houses. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader… …   Wikipedia