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History
2
Common thresholds of supermajority
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2.1
Three-quarters
2.2
Two-thirds
2.3
Three-fifths
2.4
55%
3
Use in parliamentary procedure
4
Use in governments around the world
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4.1
Australia
4.2
Bangladesh
4.3
Canada
4.4
Czech Republic
4.5
Denmark
4.6
European Union
4.6.1
Council
4.6.2
Parliament
4.7
Finland
4.8
India
4.9
Italy
4.10
Japan
4.11
New Zealand
4.12
Nigeria
4.13
Philippines
4.14
Poland
4.15
Singapore
4.16
South Korea
4.16.1
Legislation
4.16.2
Impeachment
4.16.3
Judicial review
4.16.4
Constitutional amendments
4.17
Spain
4.17.1
Constitutional reform
4.17.2
Other legal procedures
4.17.3
Autonomous communities
4.18
Taiwan
4.19
Turkey
4.20
Ukraine
4.20.1
Legislative veto
4.20.2
Constitutional amendments
4.21
United Kingdom
4.21.1
UK Parliament
4.21.2
Devolved parliaments
4.21.3
Local authorities
4.22
United Nations
4.23
United States
4.23.1
Federal government
4.23.2
State government
5
International agreements
6
See also
7
References
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(Redirected from
Two-thirds majority
)
Voting requirement above 50% for passage
"Two-thirds rule" redirects here. For the railway safety rule, see
Two-thirds rule (railway safety)
.
A joint
Politics
and
Economics
series
Social choice
and
electoral systems
Social choice
Mechanism design
Comparative politics
Comparison
List
(
By country
)
Single-winner methods
Single vote –
plurality
methods
Approval voting
First preference plurality (FPP)
Two-round
(
US
:
Jungle primary
)
Partisan primary
Instant-runoff
UK
/
NZ
:
Alternative vote (AV)
AU
:
Preferential voting
US
/
CA
:
Ranked-choice (RCV)
Party block voting
Plurality block voting
Condorcet methods
Condorcet-IRV
Round-robin voting
Minimax
Kemeny
Schulze
Ranked pairs
Maximal lottery
Positional voting
Plurality
(
el.
IRV
)
Borda count
(
el.
Baldwin
,
Mdn.
Bucklin
)
Antiplurality
(
el.
Coombs
)
Rated (cardinal) voting
Score voting
Approval voting
Combined approval voting
Majority judgment
STAR voting
Proportional representation
Party-list
Apportionment
Highest averages
(
D'Hondt
,
Sainte-Laguë
,
Huntington–Hill
)
Largest remainders
(
Hare-Niemeyer
,
Hagenbach-Bischoff
,
Imperiali
)
National remnant
Biproportional
List type
Closed list
Localized list
Open list