narrow margin
Noun
Meaning
a small margin
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Examples
the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory
the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote
For the first time, the Green Party of Austria became the third-largest party in a nationwide election, overtaking the FPÖ by a narrow margin of only a few hundred votes.
After an online vote, Too Naked for the Nazis took the prize by a narrow margin of roughly half a percent (24.8 versus 24.3), beating out Reading from Behind: A Cultural History of the Anus by Jonathan Allan.
Hoover even triumphed in Smith's home state of New York by a narrow margin.
Butler's Landing nearly became the county seat, but Celina won the vote by a narrow margin.