Talk:Simple majority

message: Under Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, as well as other parliamentary manuals, no candidates' names are dropped from subsequent ballots after the first unless the bylaws specifically provide it. For example, see Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 10th edition, page 426, line 27, through page 427, line 5. Jay Maynard 22:22, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: A citation would be useful to support the allegation that in countries other than the US "simple majority" has a meaning other than as described in this article.
The term "majority" on its own is certainly sometimes used in the sense of the term "plurality" as described in that article (notably in Parliamentary elections). However, I have never heard the expression "simple majority" used in that way.
While individual organisations are free to defined their own specific terminology and procedures, in my experience the term "simple" majority is used in the UK and Europe generally as described. The qualification is to distinguish it from a "qualified majority" (for example in the EU Council of Ministers, usually a majority of States and at least 232 of the weighted votes), an "absolute majority" or (simply!) "majority" in the multi-candidate electoral sense.
The Oxford English Dictionary does not provide a clear definition of "simple majority", but the citations which use the term imply that its meaning as described in the article is not limited to the US. Tim B 12:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-US Usage 

message: * From Red1 D Oon (talk) 06:39, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Request to edit article

message: I'm loath to restructure or make significant edits to this page without (creating a space for) discussion. I think that we currently have the following issues:
* The page is structured as a disambiguation page, including beginning with "Simple majority may refer to:" but then goes on to list other terms which are contrasting but related, like Supermajority.
* The First-past-the-post voting description uses the term "simple majority" without clarification of which meaning is being used. I think we can agree that the term is ambiguous, given that this is a disambiguation page, and that this is doing nothing to resolve that.
Potential solutions:
# Trim it down to a simple disambiguation page without extraneous, related articles
# Move "supermajority" etc. to a "See also" (similar to how it's done on Majority_(disambiguation), as of 12:10, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: because it was an undiscussed move to a stable disambiguation page that also left an incoming redirect  Simple majority (disambiguation). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 14:12, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
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message: What is single member majority system 41.223.118.38 (talk) 19:41, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
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message: @Shhhnotsoloud Why the revert? I made this into a redirect to Majority (a page that discusses the term simple majority). I don't think there's any discussion of simple majorities in the other two articles here. –Sincerely, A Lime 03:22, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: because it was an undiscussed move to a stable disambiguation page that also left an incoming redirect  Simple majority (disambiguation). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 14:12, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
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