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Plurality may refer to:


Voting

* Plurality (voting), or relative majority, when a given candidate receives more votes than any other but still fewer than half of the total **
Plurality voting Plurality voting refers to electoral systems in which a candidate, or candidates, who poll more than any other counterpart (that is, receive a plurality (voting), plurality), are elected. In systems based on single-member districts, it elects j ...
, system in which each voter votes for one candidate and the candidate with a plurality is elected ** Plurality-at-large voting or block voting, system for electing several representatives from a single electoral district


Psychology and psychiatry

* Multiplicity (psychology), also known as plurality, where multiple consciousnesses share one body **
Dissociative identity disorder Dissociative identity disorder (DID), better known as multiple personality disorder or multiple personality syndrome, is a mental disorder characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. The d ...
, dissociative disorder associated with plurality ** Other specified dissociative disorder, psychiatric diagnosis associated with plurality


Other uses

* Plurality opinion, in a decision by a multi-member court, an opinion held by more judges than any other but not by an overall majority *
Plurality (church governance) Ecclesiastical polity is the operational and governance structure of a church or of a Christian denomination. It also denotes the ministerial structure of a church and the authority relationships between churches. Polity relates closely to e ...
, a type of Christian church polity in which decisions are made by a committee * Plurality (company), an Israeli semiconductor company * Plurality, one of the "twelve pure concepts of the understanding" proposed by Kant in his '' Critique of Pure Reason'' * Plurality, the holding of more than one benefice


See also

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Plural The plural (sometimes list of glossing abbreviations, abbreviated pl., pl, or ), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical number, grammatical category of number. The plural of a noun typically denotes a quantity greater than the ...
, a linguistic form commonly used to denote two or more of something * The largest subgroup, but less than fifty percent of the total in
majority A majority, also called a simple majority or absolute majority to distinguish it from related terms, is more than half of the total.Dictionary definitions of ''majority'' aMerriam-WebsterPlurality of worlds (disambiguation) * Pluralism (disambiguation) * Pluralism (political theory), the view that political decisions be made mostly by government but also by non-governmental groups * Plurality of gods, and understanding of God in Mormonism * Ontological pluralism {{disambiguation