[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Jamie89

To think the majority of Americans actually voted for Hillary, makes the whole thing even worse. Given Trumps criticism of the system and his accusations of it being rigged, it would have been interesting if it was the other way around. But the system being the way it is has benefited him greatly here so of course there mustn't be anything wrong with it after all

I think we need to 'put our own house in order' first Jamie, before we even begin to wonder at the American Electoral System:

UKIP increased its share of the vote in the last General Election by 10 percentage points to a total of 3.9 million and wound up with just one constituency under the UK's first-past-the-post voting system.

Under the D'Hondt system of converting votes to seats, UKIP would have gained 83 seats.

Labour would have won far less seats and the Tories 75 less seats, and the SNP's 50 seat increase would have been just 25.

The unfairness of our current voting system is best illustrated by the fact that UKIP required more than 100 times as many votes for its lone elected MP than the Conservatives did for each of theirs.

Politics is a funny old game Jamie innit?