• It is highly unlikely that any one electoral alliance will win a majority of seats.

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  • His ruling Millennium Democratic Party failed to win a majority of seats in the National Assembly in April.

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  • Liberal and Labour alike, who hold the majority of seats, voted for the measure but for this offence only.

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  • The best hope entertained by a divided opposition may be that the Conservatives will fall short of a majority of seats.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • Labour did win a majority of seats in England under Clement Atlee, Harold Wilson (1966) and Tony Blair (1997, 2001 and 2005).

    BBC: Commission tries to answer the West Lothian question

  • After Tsvangirai's party won the majority of seats in parliament, the two leaders agreed to join forces in parliament under Mutambara's leadership.

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  • In 1955 the Tories won an outright majority of seats and votes in Scotland, the only party that has done so since the war.

    ECONOMIST: The Tories flirt with a growing English nationalism

  • Mr Shevardnadze's pro-western party did rather well, getting 42% of the vote and, thanks to the country's electoral system, an absolute majority of seats.

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  • Winners will be chosen by a panel of Ertegun Overseers whose composition hasn't yet been determined, but will eventually include a majority of seats selected by former holders of the scholarship.

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  • And yes, Tony Blair may have won a majority of seats in England but he had to rely on the votes of non-English MPs to get his university tuition fee policy through the Commons.

    BBC: Commission tries to answer the West Lothian question

  • They have a majority of seats on Penwith council which also contains 7 independents and 3 Cornish nationalists, reflecting the complex bundle of pavement issues that goes to make up Cornish politics.

    ECONOMIST: Local elections

  • On that basis, and taking account of the number of closely fought seats, the opposition would probably have to win at least 58% of the popular vote to get a majority of seats.

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  • That November brought the modern GOP its first majority of governorships in the South, its first majority of Senate seats in the South and its first majority of House seats in the South.

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  • They may have a broad majority of seats.

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  • The coalition led by the center-left Democratic Party won a slim margin in the lower house, beating the center-right coalition of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and therefore automatically being awarded a majority of seats.

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  • Because no single party won the majority of seats, the meetings held on May 7th instead addressed the more pressing question of how to form a government, leaving the union leaders out in the cold.

    ECONOMIST: Testing schoolchildren

  • While Fatah faltered, Hamas's fortunes had been rising, perhaps to their highest level since its election victory in 2006, when it got 44% of the vote to Fatah's 41% but won a big majority of seats.

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  • Rep. MATHESON: Well, I think we fit in quite well because - not just in this election we just had, but if you go back over the past three or four elections, the vast majority of seats that Democrats have picked up that have now ultimately given the Democratic Party the majority have been Blue Dogs.

    NPR: Blue Dogs Democrats Have a Centrist Agenda

  • In 1979, Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister with a majority of 43 seats in the House of Commons.

    CNN: Monday,

  • Mr Swinney has been one of the driving forces behind the SNP's strategy of seeking a referendum on independence after forming a government in Scotland or securing a majority of Scottish seats at Westminster.

    BBC: Emphatic SNP win for Swinney

  • Dr Cunningham told a news conference it would be "difficult" to repeat his party's performance in the 1995 local elections, which was the last time the majority of the seats up for election on Thursday next week were contested.

    BBC: Labour salvo targets glum Tories

  • But the Tories are the Lib Dems' main threat in the majority of their 63 seats.

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  • Mr Major's electoral triumph won him an overall parliamentary majority of only 21 seats.

    ECONOMIST: John Major

  • At previous elections that would have been enough for a House of Commons majority of perhaps 70 seats.

    ECONOMIST: John Major

  • Rajoy received a boost in his home region of Galicia where his centre-right party won a majority of the parliamentary seats against two nationalist groups and a socialist party.

    CNN: Spain's next threat: Losing 20% of its economy

  • The speaker may well find himself trapped in a legislative impasse between conservative and pro-reform members, even though the reformers might have won a majority of the 270 seats in the parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Iran

  • On Saturday, the Pakistan People's Party -- one of two parties that won the majority of National Assembly seats in the parliamentary elections held last month -- named its candidate for prime minister.

    CNN: Pakistan enters 'era of real democracy'

  • Although there are always days on which the matchup or something else of interest will encourage fans to fill-out a ballpark, it is noticeable from camera shots during television broadcasts that there is no shortage of available seats at the majority of games.

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  • For example, if the Lib Dems increased their share of the vote by 50% (from 19% to 28%) at the expense of Labour, and the Conservatives and Labour both won 33%, then on a uniform swing Labour would have 347 seats, a majority of 48, with 191 Conservatives and just 77 Lib Dem seats, according to estimates by Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University.

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  • Although Republicans control every aspect of redistricting in the state, even some GOP lawmakers privately say that at least two of the new seats should have a majority of Hispanic residents to avoid dilution of minority voting strength.

    WSJ: Latino Population Surge Poses Challenge to GOP

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