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DEFINITION of 'Voting Shares' . Shares that give the stockholder the right to vote on matters of corporate policy making as well as who will compose the members of the board of directors. (Investopedia)

A controlling interest is an ownership interest in a corporation with enough voting stock shares to prevail in any stockholders' motion. A majority of voting shares (over 50%) is always a controlling interest. When a party holds less than the majority of the voting shares, other present circumstances can be looked at to determine whether that party is still considered to hold a controlling ownership interest. (Wikipedia)

For the purposes of this section, the number of votes attached to a voting share in a body corporate is the maximum number of votes that can be cast in respect of the share on a poll: [...] (Corporations Act 2001)

A minority interest, which is also referred to as noncontrolling interest (NCI), is ownership of less than 50% of a company's equity by an investor or another company. For accounting purposes, minority interest is a fractional share of a company amounting to less than 50% of the voting shares. (Investopedia)