Sentence examples for a majority necessary from inspiring English sources

The Socialists were short of the 176 seats to have a majority necessary to form a government, which means it must create a coalition with another party or parties.

Mr. Tilden, with 184 electoral votes, had fallen one vote short of a majority necessary for election, with the 19 electoral votes of Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana still being decided.

Although the Kadima Party won one seat more than the conservative Likud Party in the 2009 elections, Ms. Livni was unable to cobble together a parliamentary majority necessary to form a governing coalition.

If that proves impossible Sunday, the plan is to reconvene within three months and vote again with only a simple majority necessary.

This was one more than the number needed (290) for a two-thirds majority, necessary to override a Presidential veto (or to propose a constitutional amendment).

The group has its origins in an unlikely episode of Republican and Democratic coöperation: the successful effort, after the 2012 election, that preserved the filibuster, the parliamentary maneuver that has made a sixty-vote majority necessary to accomplish almost anything in the upper chamber, and that has contributed to the inaction in Washington.

A second proposition, to have the signatures on proxy ballots written on an outer envelope that can be separated from the ballot, was preferred by a majority of those voting but it was defeated because the "Yes" vote failed to reach the two-thirds majority necessary for an amendment to be adopted.

The House vote fell short of the two-thirds majority necessary to override a veto.

Without no party likely to win the majority necessary to form a government, several smaller parties could hold the key to power.

In the presidential contest the FA's candidate, former president Tabaré Vázquez (2005 10), received 47.8% of the vote, just shy of the outright majority necessary to prevent a runoff.

The bill seemed a slam-dunk earlier in the year, but two senators changed their minds, and the bill is now stalled, waiting for the two-thirds majority necessary to move it to a vote.