absolute majority of votes

It was unclear if the coalition had won an absolute majority of votes.

But it would help if an absolute majority of votes cast was required for victory in presidential elections.

No candidate has an absolute majority of votes so Ice cream is eliminated in the first round.

The party which obtains the absolute majority of votes wins all the seats.

That option obtained an absolute majority of votes in the 1998 political status plebiscite.

The Federal Convention attempts to elect a president by an absolute majority of votes cast.

In case no candidate obtains an absolute majority of votes (50.1%), a runoff is held between the two first majorities.

Under the electoral law, a candidate who received an absolute majority of votes (i.e. more than half) in the first round was elected.

Vargas won a convincing victory, with 48.7% of the vote and close to an absolute majority of votes cast.

The SPÖ in 2005 regained the absolute majority of votes.

Each Councillor is elected individually by secret ballot by an absolute majority of votes.

Acceptance ("assent") requires an absolute majority of votes.

"An absolute majority of deputies does not mean an absolute majority of votes."

Election requires an absolute majority of votes; if no candidate gains a majority, a second round is held between the top two vote getters.

The elections saw the People's Party (PP), lose their absolute majority of votes and seats.

The Council then elects the candidate with the absolute majority of votes to be Head of Government.

As you will all have realised, Mr Patrick Cox has obtained an absolute majority of votes cast.

Often the SPÖ in Meidling has also reached the absolute majority of votes.

The candidate shall be considered President of the Republic when he obtains an absolute majority of votes cast in the plebiscite.

With no candidate able to obtain the absolute majority of votes needed to become President of Madrid, fresh elections were held in October 2003.

For the first time, the elections were won by the People's Party (PP), who won an absolute majority of votes and seats.

To be elected, a candidate must obtain an absolute majority of votes in both in General Assembly and the Security Council.

Latvia alone, without much national tradition before 1917, gave the Bolsheviks an absolute majority of votes in the elections to the Constituent Assembly.

Toronto won an absolute majority of votes after just one round of voting, eliminating the need for subsequent rounds of voting.

The SPÖ reached around 47% of the votes again (see chart below), a result close to the absolute majority of votes.