His absence potentially left the government short of a workable parliamentary majority.

My hunch is that there are enough people who feel the same way to return a Labor government with a workable majority.

This in turn made it difficult for any party to establish and maintain a workable parliamentary majority.

After that, Bruening couldn't hold a workable majority, could he?

But predicting that no leader would be able to command a workable majority in Parliament, he chose to sit out this election.

Labour could probably therefore win a workable majority in 2015 with no more than 40% of the vote.

He will get a decent workable majority though.

After seven hours in government, still without a workable majority, Fuller requested a double-dissolution from Davidson.

Hitler could not get a workable majority in Parliament.

Finding it impossible to govern successfully, Attlee called a general election in 1951, attempting to achieve a more workable majority.