What are these percentages?
The percent of the vote they got into power by?
Lets re-display that not as a percent of merely the turnout, nor merely the electorate, but as a percentage of the entire populations they purport to represent.
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They are approval ratings, not electoral results. Bourgeois democracy regularly fails to put popular candidates in power.
if they are
approval ratings
then
doesn't hold elections
is not like the others in more than the immediately obvious way.
I didn't make the meme, I am conveying the intent and explaining the numbers.
Coalitions? Also not sure how Kid Starver's number is calculated, labour does have house majority.
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