Very often when there are more than two candidates, none of them have a majority of supporters. In fact, sometimes that's true even with two or even one candidate...
What election are you thinking of where majority of votes didn’t win?
Because if you say 2016 / electoral college, I’ll have to remind you that the winner had a fairly vast majority. If you are thinking Canada or some ranked system, iirc they still elect by majority.
“No majority no win” is a great recipe for tyranny of the majority and why we have representative democracies, isn’t it?
The winner of the 2016 election received the majority of the votes cast in the electoral college by Presidential electors
Those electors voting for the winner were themselves, however, elected by only a minority of those voting for Presidential electors in elections which misleading had the name of Presidential candidates but not electors on the ballots.
I wasn't arguing the facts of the system. I wasn't even stating a preference (though, yes, I'm upset at the outcome). I was responding to a thread where:
1. Person states preference that majority wins
2. Person states that majority did win
3. I demonstrate that majority did not win
4. Person #2 says majority won EC
5. I point out that it was plainly obvious that person #1 would prefer a majority of the popular vote win
Canada uses FPTP voting and it has highly skewed the last few elections, sadly there was an expectation that the last federal election would result in election reform but that never materialized.
Let alone - anything is better, than a simple plurality based system.