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:

    “If we do take statements to be the primary bearers of truth, there seems to be a very simple answer to the question, what is it for them to be true: for a statement to be true is for things to be as they are stated to be.”
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)

    “In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)