Same system in Canada, basically. In Canada, in federal elections, you vote for
your local MP, not for the Prime Minister (president) . The MP who wins gets one
seat in parliament. The party which ends up with the most seats forms the next
Government and the Prime Minister is the head of that party. It is quite
possible for a party to win the largest percentage of the vote but not to form
the next Government because it didn't win as many seats. Sound familiar.
Kate Bennett wrote:
> A forward from a friend,
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> 2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote, but won
> based on some old colonial holdover from the nation's pre-democracy past.
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