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overall majority

 noun
     
Related topics: Voting
overall majority [countable] British English
1PPV more votes than all the other political parties together:
The Conservatives had a huge overall majority in the House of Commons.
2PPV the difference between the number of votes gained by the winning party and the total votes gained by all the other parties:
an overall majority of 28
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