0 the state of being plural --
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: --
Drea was re-elected with smaller pluralities in the 1975 and 1977 elections, and by a larger percentage in 1981.
Each of these essays traces how the certainties of modernism gave way to the plurality and uncertainties of post-modernism.
Neither assumption is justifiable in the setting of a debate on the plurality of values.
Danish exhibits another interaction between plurality and pseudopartitives which to our knowledge has not been observed before.
We ®rst examine the relative success of women candidates in mixed systems compared to pure proportional and plurality/majority systems.
Among the three leading parties the number of female list candidates exceed the number of plurality candidates (39 to 30).
The distinction is not innocuous because the effects of majority run-off systems on electoral competition are quite different from those of plurality rule.
One is to treat exclusivism as a theory to explain religious plurality and diversity, without anywhere indicating what such a theory would be.
