Plurality

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, 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 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), 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

• Plural, 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
• Plurality 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