[Whale biologist]

Canada’s Liberal Party Lost the ‘Popular Vote’ Again, but Still Won

Back in 2020, I noted that, despite having won fewer votes than the Conservative party overall, the Canadian Liberal party had won 36 more seats in parliament:

Last night, this happened again. At the current count, the Conservatives have won nearly 300,000 more votes than the Liberals, but, once again, they are set to end up with around 30 fewer seats. (We will, of course, hear almost nothing about this from the usual suspects, even though the details — the Conservatives have won the “popular vote” in five of the last six elections, but won only three of those six — are a perfect mirror-image of the American complaint.)