Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

Though they won a narrow majority, it fell short of the 40 per cent required, accelerating the fall of the Labour Government, in May 1979.

The February Revolution offered the Finnish Social Democrats momentum: they had the exceptional absolute majority in the Parliament and a narrow dominance in the Senate.

" This " reluctance " diminished as the general strike appeared to take effect, and the Workers ' Revolutionary Council voted by a narrow majority to seize power on 16 November ; however, the supreme revolutionary Executive Committee was unable to recruit enough members to carry out its plans for armed uprising, and had to call off the proposed revolution the same day.

In the run-up to the election, held on 9 April 1992, most opinion polls had suggested that the election would end in a hung parliament or a narrow Labour majority.

Part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, the majority of the metropolitan area of Perth is located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, a low coastal escarpment.

The coalition won a narrow ( three-seat ) majority in the parliament.

If the deviations from ideality are not too strong, Raoult's law will still be valid in a narrow concentration range when approaching x = 1 for the majority phase ( the solvent ).

A referendum was then held on the same day as the 1937 general election, when a relatively narrow majority approved it.

However the left-wing bloc in the Knesset only won an overall narrow majority, facilitated by the disqualification of small nationalist parties that did not manage to pass the electoral threshold.

After very long cabinet formation talks, the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ), itself a new Christian democratic political formation composed of KVP, CHU and ARP, formed government with the VVD, based on a very narrow majority.

Brandt's Ostpolitik led to a meltdown of the narrow majority Brandt's coalition enjoyed in the Bundestag.

Labour won the 1964 general election with a narrow majority of four seats, and Wilson became Prime Minister.

It was a tough election, but Labour won a narrow majority, gaining 56 seats ( a total of 317 to the Conservatives 309 ).

McIntosh and Labour Party leader Michael Foot insisted this was untrue, and Labour won a very narrow victory with a majority of six.

The Cabinet Van Agt-I had a very narrow majority.

The vast majority of traffic into and out of the Salt Lake Valley passes through only four geographic features, all of which are narrow.

While the majority of Brick Township is located on the mainland, Beaches I, II and III are situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.

The latter systems are often lacking in integrity because they elevate the subjective whims and needs of a single individual or narrow class of individuals above not only the majority, but also the law's supremacy.

Though losses in the 2001 legislative elections made the DPP the largest single party in the Legislative Yuan, the pan-blue coalition retained a narrow majority over the pan-green coalition.

At the general election which followed, the Governor General was sustained by a narrow majority, but in 1848 the Reformers were again returned to power, and he and Lafontaine formed their second administration on March 11 under Lord Elgin and carried numerous important reforms, including the freeing from sectarian control of the University of Toronto and the introduction into Upper Canada of an important municipal system.

However, in response to their urgings he did narrow the time-period to sometime in the year 1843, stating: “ My principles in brief, are, that Jesus Christ will come again to this earth, cleanse, purify, and take possession of the same, with all the saints, sometime between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844 ” March 21, 1844 passed without incident, and the majority of Millerites maintained their faith.

It is a " narrow canal " for the vast majority of its length, but at the extremities to the east of Burton upon Trent and west of Middlewich, it is a wide canal.

Using mortars to cover their movement they attacked on a narrow front up the steep slope using grenades, however the Australians beat the Chinese back, killing more than 30 for the loss of seven wounded during six attacks.

Opening combat as early as 29 November and the offensive on 30 December, three separate drives developed: in the north, it was planned that Japanese forces would be forced into the narrow Bonis Peninsula and contained ; in the centre the seizure of Pearl Ridge would give the Australians control of the east – west thoroughfares and protection against further counterattacks, while also opening the way for a drive to the east coast ; and the main campaign in the south, where the bulk of the Japanese forces were concentrated at Buin.

In 1861, McMinn County voted against secession by a narrow 1, 144-904 margin.

On January 31, 1961, Brooks voted with a narrow majority of 217-212 to increase the size of the House Rules Committee to permit Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas to appoint newer, more liberal members to the panel, which determines the legislation brought to the House floor.

It was imposed by law, and secured Parliamentary approval only by a narrow vote in which all the Roman Catholic bishops who were not imprisoned voted against.

However, he was the only Progressive returned to Parliament by a narrow margin after many left-wing voters voted for Labour to prevent a National government from being elected due to a split on the left.

The Danish voters voted in favour of the European by a narrow margin.

The result was close, however, as the bloc voting for the deal was only a narrow majority of total shares outstanding, including those not voted ( a requirement to complete the deal ).

Kirk changed his position on Cap and Trade legislation during the campaign saying he voted for it " because it was in the narrow interests of my Congressional district ," but that as a representative of the entire state of Illinois, " I will vote No on that bill .”

Though he abstained in the Parliamentary vote authorizing British military involvement in the Iraq War in 2003 and voted against the introduction of Foundation Hospitals, he joined with the government in voting for the introduction of top-up fees, helping Prime Minister Blair secure an extremely narrow 5 vote majority ( 316-311 ).

At the time the Wanderers were English football's last members ' club but at an EGM in July 2004 the members voted by a narrow margin to restructure the club as a Public Limited Company.

The attempt failed, despite media reports of possible pay-outs to members of around £ 1, 000 to £ 1, 500 each, as Nationwide members voted by a narrow margin of 33, 700 against converting the building society into a bank.

The total population had a narrow majority of 2400 freedmen, who mostly voted Republican, and 2200 whites, mostly Democrats.

A total of 1, 230, 937 ( 51. 6 %) voted at the referendum in favour of an Assembly, a narrow majority of about 77, 400 over those voting against.

Considerations of finance and water supply prevailed, and the people of Brooklyn voted by a narrow margin to consolidate.

In a referendum on November 5, 1978, a narrow majority of 50. 5 % voted against putting the Zwentendorf nuclear plant into operation.

Socrates is voted guilty by a narrow margin ( 36a ).

She was recently voted the most popular non-steam narrow gauge locomotive.

In 1986, the King County Council voted, by a narrow majority, to rename King County for Dr. King.

A deputy to the National Assembly of Bulgaria, Blagoev voted in October 1914, along with the rest of the faction of narrow socialists, against war credits.

The Parish had immediately prior to this date voted, by a narrow margin, to leave the Diocese of Sourozh and to join the Exarchate, and its Parish Priest had asked to be received into the clergy of the Exarchate.

Kokanee drinkers have voted for Glacier and Fresh after a narrow election vs runner up " Goat ".

After presenting Palmer's apparently questionable actions to the Cabinet, they voted, by a narrow margin, to invoke the 25th Amendment.

In 1982, following the imposition of Martial Law, a narrow majority on the Executive voted to discontinue the invitations.