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52% is a landslide?


In a first-past-the-post representative democracy enthralled with partisan party politics, one party having a majority of 80 votes over all others combined is a landslide.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/UK...


Though they got the 80 seat majority with less than half of the popular vote (43%).




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