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 Translation for 'absolute majority' from English to Polish
NOUN   an absolute majority | absolute majorities
SYNO absolute majority | majority
absolutna większość {f}absolute majority
Partial Matches
większość {f}majority
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zdecydowana większość {f}vast majority
ogromna większość {f}vast majority
prawo
werdykt {m} większościowy
majority verdict
pol.
zasada {f} większościowa
majority rule
pol.
milcząca większość {f}
silent majority
absolutny {adj}absolute
pol.
monarchia {f} absolutna
absolute monarchy
pol.
monarcha {m} [osob.] absolutny
absolute monarch
fiz.
zero {n} bezwzględne
absolute zero
fiz.
zero {n} absolutne
absolute zero
mat.
geometria {f} absolutna
absolute geometry
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Usage Examples English
  • This shifts the winner of the election from an absolute majority outcome to a plurality outcome.
  • Stoiber subsequently led the CSU to an absolute majority in the 2003 Bavarian state elections, for the third time in a row, winning this time 60.7% of the votes and a two-thirds majority in the Landtag.
  • The Council then elects the candidate with the absolute majority of votes to be prime minister.
  • In Finland, no party has had an absolute majority in the parliament since independence, and multi-party coalitions have been the norm.
  • Patassé's party, the "Mouvement pour la Libération du Peuple Centrafricain" (MLPC) or Movement for the Liberation of the Central African People, gained a plurality (relative majority) but not an absolute majority of seats in parliament, which meant Patassé's party required coalition partners.

  • All three Minister-Presidents of Brandenburg have come from the Social Democratic Party (unlike any other state except Bremen) and they even won an absolute majority of seats and every single-member constituency in the 1994 state election.
  • However, in the subsequent 2008 elections the CSU lost the absolute majority for the first time in 46 years.
  • The President may return legislation to the National Assembly for further debate—a kind of veto—but the legislation can be passed again by an absolute majority vote.
  • In the case that no candidate receives an absolute majority of the popular vote or more than 40% of the vote with an advantage of more than 10% over the second-place finisher, a run-off is to be held among the two candidates most voted.
  • After decades of political disappointment, the February Revolution offered the Finnish social democrats an opportunity to govern; they held the absolute majority in Parliament.

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