diff --git a/src/consensus.cpp b/src/consensus.cpp
index 4efb7ee2..a299dde9 100644
--- a/src/consensus.cpp
+++ b/src/consensus.cpp
@@ -1077,7 +1077,8 @@ namespace consensus
 
         // Check whether we have received enough votes in total.
         // Threshold is devided by 100 to convert average to decimal.
-        const uint32_t min_votes_required = ceil((conf::cfg.contract.consensus.threshold / 100.0) * unl_count);
+        const float stage_threshold = ((STAGE_THRESHOLD_RATIO[ctx.stage - 1] * conf::cfg.contract.consensus.threshold) / (STAGE_THRESHOLD_RATIO[2] * 100.0));
+        const uint32_t min_votes_required = ceil(stage_threshold * unl_count);
         if (total_ledger_primary_hash_votes < min_votes_required)
         {
             LOG_INFO << "Not enough peers proposing to perform consensus. votes:" << total_ledger_primary_hash_votes << " needed:" << min_votes_required;
@@ -1474,7 +1475,7 @@ namespace consensus
         // We allocate configured stage slice for stages 1, 2, 3. Stage 0 gets the entire remaining time from the round window.
         ctx.stage123_duration = conf::cfg.contract.consensus.roundtime * conf::cfg.contract.consensus.stage_slice / 100;
         ctx.stage0_duration = conf::cfg.contract.consensus.roundtime - (ctx.stage123_duration * 3);
-        ctx.stage_reset_wait_threshold = conf::cfg.contract.consensus.roundtime / 10;
+        ctx.stage_reset_wait_threshold = conf::cfg.contract.consensus.roundtime / 15;
 
         // We use a time window boundry offset based on contract id to vary the window boundries between
         // different contracts with same round time.