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Alwefaq won a majority of votes with 18 out of the 40 total seats.

If it cannot be reformed, it should be abolished and its mandate assigned to the General Assembly with decisions taken by a majority vote.

The year 1976 was the last year a Democratic presidential candidate won a majority of Southern electoral votes.

In fact, veto power should be given only to the General Assembly, to be exercised by a majority vote.

The response was an overwhelming majority of 368,392 votes for the dissolution and only 184 against, an unequivocal result.

The Charter itself supports that view in Article 108, which provides for a two thirds majority vote for changes to the Charter.

The Popular Petition won the majority of the votes in Sidi Bouzid, where the protests movement which overthrew ousted President Zeine El Abidine Ben Ali kicked off.

Jacques Chirac was re elected president with 82 of the vote because of the menace from the extreme right.

Furthermore, the statutes provided that objections to decisions of the honorary board were allowed and were to be decided by a majority vote in the meeting of the members.

The Working Group established under rule 106, paragraph 1, may also declare a complaint admissible by majority vote or inadmissible by unanimity.

Unlike presidents Hugo Chávez in Venezuela or Evo Morales in Bolivia, who came to power by majority vote, Ortega regained Nicaragua s presidency in 2007 despite securing only 38 of the vote in the first round of polling.

This resulted in agreement on a coalition government, which was also a majority government, between the Conservative Party, which won the most votes and seats in the election, and the Liberal Democrats.

It was also suggested that the use of the veto be changed in such a manner that it could be overruled either by a specific number of positive votes of Security Council members or by a two thirds majority of the General Assembly.

In three separate majority opinions, the Court rejected the army's reasoning and determined that the principle of equality required the army to overcome such constraints and accommodate the natural biological needs of women.

After conservative candidate Felipe Calderon was declared the winner by less than 1 of the vote, his populist rival, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, quickly claimed fraud.

One day after the result was announced, the country s Constitutional Council, led by Gbagbo s close ally Paul Yao N Dre, annulled the results from seven departments in the north, declaring Gbagbo the winner of the election with 51 of the vote.

6. The Commission shall adopt its report by a majority vote, unless it is a single member Commission, and shall submit that report to the parties to the dispute setting forth its findings and recommendations, which the parties to the dispute shall consider in good faith.

The extremely tight race Calderón won by 0.5 of the vote and the profound disappointment suffered by López Obrador and his supporters led them to contest the ruling of Mexico s electoral authorities, and to refuse to acknowledge Calderón s victory.

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ABIDJAN On December 2, Côte d Ivoire s Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) declared opposition leader Alassane Ouattara the winner of the country s November presidential election with 54.1 of the vote.

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If a vote is equally divided on a matter other than an election, the proposal shall be regarded as rejected.

If a vote is equally divided on matters other than elections, the proposal shall be regarded as rejected.

If a vote is equally divided on a matter other than an election, the proposal shall be regarded as having been rejected.

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The Conference shall consider and approve the proposal by a two thirds majority.

Decisions of the Committee shall be made by a majority of the members present.

Decisions of the Committee shall be made by a majority vote of the members present.

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Malawians overwhelmingly chose a Multi Party system of Government.

As an added provision, however, a law vetoed with a majority of 2 3 must be passed again with a majority of 2 3 in the Bundestag.

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