text: OK. Clinton got more votes than Trump; the Liberals got more votes than the Conservatives or any other party. Agreed that riding boundaries result in seat numbers that proportionally represent the numbers of votes cast for each party but that's why PR would be a good electoral system, right? The Liberals not only won more seats than all the other parties put together (the definition of a majority government) but they also won more of the popular vote than any other party. Since to all intents and purposes there are only two parties in the US, the situation is not that easy to compare with the Canadian system.