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:

    “Uncontradicting solitude
    Supports me on its giant palm;
    And like a sea-anemone
    or simple snail, there cautiously
    Unfolds, emerges, what I am.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The candidate tells us we are the “backbone of the State,” and we know that it is true, not because we are possessed of certain endowed virtues, but because we are a majority and have the vote.”
    —Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)