Betekenis van plurality In het Nederlands

• 0 the state of being plural

• 1 a large number of different types of something:

  • There was a marked plurality of opinions/views among the people attending the meeting.

  • He won a 48 percent plurality of the vote rather than an outright majority.

  • A plurality of the population voted for change.

• 2 (in elections involving three or more people) the difference between the number of votes received by the person who won and the number received by the person who is second, or a number of votes or places in a legislature that is more than any other party has but less than half the total number:

  • [ C ] Jenson won by a plurality of 2000 votes over her nearest rival.