The polling guru Nate Silver noted that his pre-election forecast, along with everyone else's, did project a narrow Conservative plurality, but not an outright majority.
(Only in Queens does anti-bikism muster a slight plurality; Pro-bikism commands outright majorities everywhere else, even out on Staten Island).
Public opinion on same-sex marriage is shifting rapidly in the United States — with supporters of extending marriage rights to same-sex couples often finding themselves in the plurality and sometimes an outright majority in some polls.
It had been widely assumed that the Muslim Brotherhood would capture a plurality rather than an outright majority of votes, much as its cousins, Nahda in Tunisia and the Justice and Development Party in Morocco, have recently done.
On the one hand, in a case where one candidate had a fairly clear plurality of delegates, but not an outright majority, uncommitted delegates (especially super delegates) could align behind them to give them their majority.
Polls suggest that his coalition will win a large plurality of congressional seats, if not an outright majority.
He won a 48percentt plurality of the vote rather than an outright majority, and was forced into a runoff with Mr. Blount.
If you factor in the millions who opted for outriders--Ralph Nader to Gore's left; Patrick Buchanan, Harry Browne, and Howard Phillips to Bush's right--then the electorate's expressed preference for a budgetary and tax regime more liberal than Bush's goes from a mere plurality of half a million to an outright majority of two and a half million.
Pheu Thai is predicting either an outright majority of the 500 parliamentary seats available or a plurality that would give it the right to form a coalition government.
A general election was held in September 2013, in which Nasheed received a plurality of votes, outpolling the second highest candidate by a wide margin, but did not win an outright majority.
