Trudeau won 50.30 % of the vote when he appeared on the ballot, but only people in a few neighborhoods in Montreal got to vote. Nevertheless, he runs the whole country now. Westminster style governments are weird. (Not that the Electoral College is a great system, either.)
This is why I like STAR, it doesn’t just factor in preference and approval, but it also factors in relative opinion and comparative opinion between each pair off. It’s majoritarian, and even promotes near condorcet outcomes.
You don’t see a polling faceoff so much as a matrix result of how well rated each candidate was, and how each candidate faired against the others.
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