Free calculator · For HOA boards
How many votes do we need for a quorum, and how many yes votes pass the motion?
A 120-home community needs a 20% quorum, and a motion passes with a majority of the votes cast. The board expects 40 votes.
Quorum is 24 votes. With 40 votes cast, 21 yes votes pass the motion; with only 24 present, 13 yes votes carry it, 10.8% of the community.
Quorum is your documents’ share of every vote in the community, rounded up to a whole vote.
A majority is more than half; two-thirds and three-quarters mean at least that share. Of the votes cast, the count depends on turnout, so the page shows your expected turnout and the bare quorum. Of every vote in the community, turnout does not change it.
The share of the community that can decide is the fewest yes votes that can carry a motion, divided by every vote.
The fewest votes that must be present, in person or by proxy, for the meeting to act. Your governing documents set it, usually as a share of all the votes in the community.
More than half of the votes the documents count: of the votes cast, of those present, or of every vote in the community. Which one applies changes the answer a lot, so check the wording.
The meeting cannot vote on the business. Many documents allow it to be adjourned and reconvened, sometimes with a lower quorum; yours will say.
Rebel HOA runs community votes online, sealed or named, with turnout counted as residents vote.