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Originally Posted by Hugh
It just seems strange that someone who got less votes than the previous election, and a smaller amount of votes more than the next candidate than in the previous election, could be described as having a larger majority...
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I can't recall where exact but I saw this exact same debate elsewhere last year and the upshot of it was that it depends on what you mean by majority. I think that it is number of votes rather than percentages though.