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What election are you thinking of where majority of votes didn’t win? Because if you say 2016 / electoral college, I’ll have to remind you that the winner had

What election are you thinking of where majority of votes didn’t win? Because if you say 2016 / electoral college, I’ll have to remind you that the winner had a fairly vast majority. If you are thinking Canada or some ranked system, iirc they still elect by majority. “No majority no win” is a great recipe for tyranny of the majority and why we have representative democracies, isn’t it?

munk-a 7y ago
Canada uses FPTP voting and it has highly skewed the last few elections, sadly there was an expectation that the last federal election would result in election reform but that never materialized.
eyelidlessness 7y ago
> What election are you thinking of where majority of votes didn’t win? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_which_the_winner_lost_the_popular_vote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... > Because if you say 2016 / electoral college, I’ll have to remind you that the winner had a fairly vast majority If you mean the winner who lost, sure?
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  The winner of the 2016 election received the majority of the votes cast in the electoral college by Presidential electors Those electors voting for the winner were themselves, however, elected by only a minority of those voting for Presidential electors in elections which misleading had the name of Presidential candidates but not electors on the ballots.
  - eyelidlessness 7y ago
    This is pointlessly pedantic. The person clearly meant they preferred elections be won by a majority of the popular vote.
    - SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
      In the USA we don't use popular vote. We use state votes. The winner won with a vast majority of those state votes. You can be upset at the outcome, but you can not argue the facts of the system.
      - eyelidlessness 7y ago
        I wasn't arguing the facts of the system. I wasn't even stating a preference (though, yes, I'm upset at the outcome). I was responding to a thread where: 1. Person states preference that majority wins 2. Person states that majority did win 3. I demonstrate that majority did not win 4. Person #2 says majority won EC 5. I point out that it was plainly obvious that person #1 would prefer a majority of the popular vote win

munk-a 7y ago

Canada uses FPTP voting and it has highly skewed the last few elections, sadly there was an expectation that the last federal election would result in election reform but that never materialized.

eyelidlessness 7y ago

> What election are you thinking of where majority of votes didn’t win? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_which_the_winner_lost_the_popular_vote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... > Because if you say 2016 / electoral college, I’ll have to remind you that the winner had a fairly vast majority If you mean the winner who lost, sure?

dragonwriter 7y ago
The winner of the 2016 election received the majority of the votes cast in the electoral college by Presidential electors Those electors voting for the winner were themselves, however, elected by only a minority of those voting for Presidential electors in elections which misleading had the name of Presidential candidates but not electors on the ballots.
- eyelidlessness 7y ago
  This is pointlessly pedantic. The person clearly meant they preferred elections be won by a majority of the popular vote.
  - SlowRobotAhead 7y ago
    In the USA we don't use popular vote. We use state votes. The winner won with a vast majority of those state votes. You can be upset at the outcome, but you can not argue the facts of the system.
    - eyelidlessness 7y ago
      I wasn't arguing the facts of the system. I wasn't even stating a preference (though, yes, I'm upset at the outcome). I was responding to a thread where: 1. Person states preference that majority wins 2. Person states that majority did win 3. I demonstrate that majority did not win 4. Person #2 says majority won EC 5. I point out that it was plainly obvious that person #1 would prefer a majority of the popular vote win