# Should the winner of the popular vote be Canada’s Prime Minister? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 22, 2019, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-winner-of-the-popular-vote-be-canada-s-prime-minister/842131 "2019-10-22T12:42:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**Author:** ![Wrenching\_Spanners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecb155/32.png) [@Wrenching\_Spanners](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenching_Spanners)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-winner-of-the-popular-vote-be-canada-s-prime-minister/842131/26 "2019-10-22T17:19:17Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Do you have a link to these people who say such things? I find it hard to believe someone said regardless of the established electoral system, every country should make the popular vote winner be the executive. You want an example of people on the Straight Dope complaining that Hillary won the popular vote but lost the electoral college? Seriously? OK, here you go: > [@Re the 2016 POTUS election 5 months later are there any "lessons" for the Dems going forward?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-the-2016-potus-election-5-months-later-are-there-any-lessons-for-the-dems-going-forward/784510/8): > > Trump didn’t beat her. He won on a technicality. > > Carry on. [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=824009](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=824009) And here’s a whole thread with people complaining that the US electoral college is unfair: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813409](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=813409) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-winner-of-the-popular-vote-be-canada-s-prime-minister/842131)._