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What is "absolute majority"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
absolute majority
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As they controlled an absolute majority of shares, the club was effectively closed.
▪ If there is a party with an absolute majority in the lower house it will form the government.
▪ It was only after the SPÖ failed to win an absolute majority in the general election of 1983 that he stood down.
▪ Meanwhile the ex-communist Social Democrats are certain to be returned to power and even hope to obtain an absolute majority.
▪ National secured an absolute majority with only 35.1 % of the vote.
▪ The elections are by secret ballot, and an absolute majority is required.
▪ The motion failed to obtain an absolute majority of 249 but it was a close-run thing.
▪ The second round was contested in the 58 constituencies where no candidate had gained an absolute majority in the first round.
Wiktionary
absolute majority

n. 1 More than half of the votes cast; more than half of the possible votes. 2 More than half of the counted item.

WordNet
absolute majority

n. (elections) more than half of the votes [syn: majority]

Usage examples of "absolute majority".

The eight electors for the town obtained at the first ballot the absolute majority of suffrages.

In September they won an absolute majority, with 51 per cent of the votes.

They'll take themselves out of the picture and give us an absolute majority.

Humphries was out to get an absolute majority, that was as clear to Dan as a gun aimed at his head.

The party is the most powerful single political force on Earth, even though it does not have an absolute majority.

They possessed over 12,000 councillors, with an absolute majority in 80 town councils and were the biggest party in a further 170.

Everybody expected Quinn to sweep the field, and in fact he took the primary with an absolute majority in a list of seven.

Looks like nobody has an absolute majority here, but you've convinced me.

Many of the staff, though not an absolute majority, were Venerian in these days.