If no candidate wins an absolute majority, a runoff will be held Aug. 11.
Then in the second round, he fell eight votes short of an absolute majority.
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Under French law, if no candidate wins an absolute majority, the two top candidates faceoff.
After the 30th ballot, only an absolute majority was needed for a valid election.
He has an absolute majority in parliament and leads the opposition Socialists in the polls.
If no candidate wins an absolute majority, a run-off will be held two weeks later.
Only 308 MPs voted in favour, far below the 316 needed for an absolute majority.
From the fourth session onward, the bar is lowered to an absolute majority, equal to 504 votes.
He has promised to negotiate first with them if his Social Democrats fail to win an absolute majority.
Gingrich plus Paul rolled up an absolute majority of votes in South Carolina.
In 1973, Gaullists and their allies retained an absolute majority in the second ballot of the French general election.
With such help, the left may still be pushed to get the 289 seats needed for an absolute majority.
This would require executives to get support from an absolute majority of their shareholders before spending any money on politics.
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The PP's lead in some polls has risen to 14 points, enough to give it an absolute majority in parliament.
He received 387 votes in the secret ballot, taking him over the 336 votes needed to secure an absolute majority.
Meanwhile the Conservatives' target lead for an absolute majority is, at 11 points, just as high as it was before.
If no candidate wins an absolute majority, there will be a run-off between the top two contenders, most likely in mid-October.
But the nominee must win a vote of confidence from the lower house of parliament, the Sejm, with an absolute majority of its members.
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.
Even now, most polls suggest that the conservatives and their likely post-election allies, the Free Democrats, will not win an absolute majority of the vote.
Though far short of an absolute majority, he headed the poll.
BJP, which has an absolute majority in the state's legislative assembly.
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For one thing, the Socialists again fell short of an absolute majority in parliament, so Mr Zapatero will need a regional party's backing (see article).
The right-wing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) - the party of former President Nicolas Sarkozy - is defending an absolute majority in the current National Assembly.
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He could revive a proposal the king firmly rejected some weeks ago: to form a new government based on an absolute majority instead of the required two-thirds majority.
Provisional results of last month's elections to the Serb Republic's national assembly suggest that Mr Karadzic's party has, for the first time, failed to win an absolute majority.
By the afternoon, the election commission was announcing that Mr Kocharian had fallen just short of an absolute majority: he had 49.8%, and must face a run-off after all.
Nevertheless, the ruralistas will probably not attempt to overturn the president's veto in Congress (this would require an absolute majority of legislators in a joint session of both houses).
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In Germany's second-most populous state, where his party has held an absolute majority of the legislature's seats for the past 30 years, he can do pretty well what he likes.
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