No vote under the three preceding sections shall be regarded as an instruction under article nineteen of the bill of rights of the constitution of the commonwealth, unless the question submitted receives a majority of all the votes cast at that election.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 53, § 22
Instructions to representatives; necessity of majority vote
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