minority government in English

noun
1
a government in which the governing party has most seats but still less than half the total.
Since the JVP quit, the ruling coalition has been a minority government with just 80 seats in a parliament of 225.

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1. The white minority government declared itself a republic in 1970.

2. Following the inconclusive election in February 19 Harold Wilson formed a minority government dependent on Liberal support.

3. Melbourne led a minority government and the opposition took advantage of the marriage to weaken his position further.

4. This party continuously held power from 1955 through 1993, when it was replaced by a new minority government.

5. In this case, the options for forming the Government are either a minority government or a coalition government.

6. The 1910 general elections had left the Liberals as a minority government dependent upon the support of Irish Nationalists.

7. 16 Or he might aim for a minority government dependent on the votes of six Arab members of the Knesset.

8. In other words, the position of a minority government can be made untenable if all the other parties combine against it.

9. The party has currently 86 of 230 seats in the Portuguese Parliament following the October 2015 election, forming a minority government.

10. 29 We need electoral reform so that a minority government with a 100seat advantage can not implement the extremist policies of the Eighties again.

11. Atwin's aisle-crossing marks a small win for a Liberal party looking to tout its environmental credentials and shore up the ranks of its minority government

12. Atwin's aisle-crossing marks a small win for a Liberal party looking to tout its environmental credentials and shore up the ranks of its minority government

13. Atwin's aisle-crossing marks a small win for a Liberal party looking to tout its environmental credentials and shore up the ranks of its minority government

14. The minority government of Jim Callaghan came when Labour ended their 15-month Lib-Lab pact with the Liberals having lost their majority in early 1977.