relative majority

1. 1.

   (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)

   Synonymsplurality

   Broaderrelative quantity

   election

Questions about relative majority

What does relative majority mean?

relative majority means "(in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)".

What is another word for relative majority?

Close synonyms include plurality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is relative majority a common word?

relative majority is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.