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Meanings of relative majority in English
Portuguese
pluralidade Spanish
pluralidad (In an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)
Usage of relative majority in English
1
Most members of those assemblies will be chosen by relative majority voting, and will represent geographic constituencies.
2
GOVERNORS: State governors will be chosen by relative majority -the winner is the one with the most votes.
3
The first serves for the direct election of candidates standing in constituency seats, the winner being determined by a relative majority.
4
Moreover-andthis ought to have clinched the matter-theHellenic population formed an absolute as well as a relative majority in the year 1919.
5
Not so, Mr. President; look at the relative majorities of the two houses of Congress as they will be after the fourth of March next.