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Simple majority

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ15118780 ↗
Source-derived summary

Simple majority may refer to:

A simple majority, being the implied term when referring to something as just a majority, unless specified otherwise, a voting requirement of more than half of all votes cast

Plurality (voting), a voting requirement of more votes cast for a proposition than for any other option

First-past-the-post voting, the single-winner version of an election with plurality voting and one vote per person

See also

Supermajority, a voting requirement of a specified level of support which is greater than the "one half" threshold used for a simple majority.

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The public source identifies “Simple majority” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Simple, majority and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 92-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Simple, majority and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Simple majority” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.