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For what it's worth, Trudeau lost the popular vote last year.


> For what it's worth, Trudeau lost the popular vote last year.

For what it's worth: no he didn't, he got 50.3% of the vote[1]. We don't directly elect prime ministers in Canada.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papineau_(electoral_district)#...


50% in a tiny district, 33% whole Canada.


My comment was a nitpick about how the Canadian electoral system works: no one outside of that particular riding voted for Justin Trudeau, they only voted for their own member of parliament.


That's not atypical in a system with more than two viable parties.


For what it's worth, the parties to the right (Conservatives and PPC) only received 38.7% of the vote combined.


And gained five seats versus the previous election.




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