El acta incluye la votación y la mayoría.

Not exactly. In Spanish, acta usually means an official written record of a meeting, decision, or event.

In this kind of sentence, el acta is often best understood as:

• the minutes
• the official record
• the written report

It is not usually the same as the English word act meaning a law, a performance, or a deed.

This is a very common question. Acta is indeed feminine, but it takes el in the singular because it begins with a stressed a- sound.

So you get:

• el acta
• el agua
• el aula

But the noun is still feminine, so any adjective agrees in the feminine:

• el acta oficial
• el agua fría

And in the plural, it goes back to the normal feminine article:

• las actas

So in your sentence, el acta is grammatically correct even though acta is feminine.

Incluye is the third-person singular present tense of incluir, meaning to include.

Here is the basic pattern:

• yo incluyo = I include
• tú incluyes = you include
• él / ella / usted incluye = he / she / you include

In the sentence, the subject is el acta, which is singular, so the verb must also be singular:

• El acta incluye...

This is the same idea as in English:

• The report includes...

Because both nouns are feminine singular nouns:

• la votación
• la mayoría

Spanish uses articles more often than English does, especially when referring to specific things already understood from the context.

So la votación y la mayoría is natural Spanish for something like:

• the vote and the majority
• the voting result and the majority

Repeating the article before each noun is completely normal here.

It can depend on context, but votación usually refers to:

• the voting process
• the vote
• the result of a vote

In meeting or official language, la votación often means the formal vote that took place.

It is not usually the physical paper ballot itself. For that, other words may be used depending on context.

So in this sentence, la votación most likely refers to the official vote that was carried out.

La mayoría means the majority.

In this kind of formal sentence, it usually refers to the majority obtained or recorded in the vote. Depending on the context, it could mean:

• the fact that a majority existed
• the size or type of majority
• the majority outcome

For example, in meeting language, it may refer to whether something passed by:

• majoría simple = simple majority
• mayoría absoluta = absolute majority

So here, la mayoría is likely part of the official voting result being recorded.

Normally, y means and.

Spanish changes y to e before words that begin with an i- or hi- sound:

• padre e hijo
• España e Italia

But mayoría begins with an m sound, not an i sound, so it stays:

• la votación y la mayoría

So y is correct here.

The accent marks show where the stress goes.

• votación → stress on the last syllable: vo-ta-CIÓN
• mayoría → stress on the í: ma-yo-RÍ-a

Without the accent marks, a Spanish reader would expect different stress patterns, so the accents are important.

They are not optional.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

el AC-ta in-CLU-ye la vo-ta-THYON y la ma-yo-REE-a

A few notes for Spain Spanish:

• c before i in votación is pronounced like th in much of Spain
• ll does not appear here, so that issue does not matter in this sentence
• y is pronounced like and, but as a word by itself it often sounds like a vowel similar to ee
• h does not appear here

Syllable stress:

• EL AC-ta in-CLU-ye la vo-ta-THYON y la ma-yo-REE-a

In most normal contexts, no. That sounds unnatural or incomplete.

Spanish usually wants the articles here because it is referring to specific, identifiable things:

• la votación
• la mayoría

So the original sentence sounds much more natural and complete:

• El acta incluye la votación y la mayoría.

Omitting the articles might only happen in very compressed note-taking, headings, or unusual technical style, not in standard full-sentence Spanish.

Yes, it sounds fairly formal and administrative.

Words like:

• acta
• votación
• mayoría

are very common in official, legal, institutional, and meeting-related Spanish.

This is the kind of sentence you might see in:

• meeting minutes
• official reports
• committee records
• legal or administrative documents

So it is correct everyday Spanish, but with a clearly formal tone.