1.  As they controlled an absolute majority of shares, the club was effectively closed.

2.  If the candidate obtains an absolute majority, he is appointed Chancellor by the Federal President.

3.  If there is a party with an absolute majority in the lower house it will form the government.

4.  Meanwhile the ex-communist Social Democrats are certain to be returned to power and even hope to obtain an absolute majority.

5.  The elections are by secret ballot, and an absolute majority is required.

6.  There was no party with an absolute majority in the House of Commons.

7.  They were able to retain an absolute majority of seats.

8.  In Schleswig-Holstein, whose Minister President was the federal SPD candidate for chancellor, Bjrn Engholm, the SPD narrowly retained an absolute majority.

9.  Parliament was required to choose between the two leading candidates after no single candidate had won an absolute majority of the popular vote in the presidential elections in September.