The phrase "a precarious majority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a majority is unstable or vulnerable to change, often in a political context.
Example: "The coalition government was formed with a precarious majority, making it difficult to pass legislation without support from opposition parties."
Alternatives: "an unstable majority" or "a fragile majority".
The best the right can hope for now is a precarious majority.
Republicans and Democrats are engaged in one of their fiercest fights ever this year over control of the House, where the Republicans have a precarious majority that would be wiped out by the loss of six seats.
That Wilson government stayed in power until he called another election eight months later, which Labour won with a precarious majority.
With such a precarious majority held, every player in the new government wields significant power, potentially stalling reform.
The Coalition has half the seats, and the support of Katter gives them a majority, but a very precarious majority – it would still make sense to seek out the support of more crossbenchers.
Yes, it is still a slim and precarious majority, and it is not your mother's middle class — as secure and well-off as in Europe, North America, Japan or South Korea.
The shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin is defending a precarious 1,414 majority in Dorset West, where Labour finished a remote third in 2001.
Mr. Lieberman pulled his party out of the government, leaving Mr. Netanyahu's coalition with a precarious parliamentary majority of one.
And not just any Democrat; a Senate Democrat that Republicans desperately want to unseat in November as part of their effort to keep control of their precarious majority in the Senate.
Specifically, as the campaign season officially gets underway this Labor Day weekend, they are rooting for Republicans to fall flat in their aggressive drive to win back the Senate, and, better yet, to lose their precarious majority in the House.
Quebecois particularism flies because "the francophone majority is itself a precarious minority that needs protection in order to ensure its survival" (Bouchard, 2011, p. 441).
