Idiom Breakdown

51 percent

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Definition

A narrow or bare majority.

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"But in a political system, everything tends to be a yes-or-no decision; if 51 percent vote yes, it's yes."
"Majority rule, loosely put, is the proposition that 51 percent of the people should be able to get whatever they want."
"It was he who argued that the tyranny imposed by 51 percent of the people was every bit as threatening to democracy as the royal tyranny the colonists had fought to leave behind."

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