It's how our ridings are set up. Instead of electing on popular vote. It's popular vote in the ridings. Though the liberals in AB, Tories in urban areas and the NDP collectively throughout the country got more popular vote, they failed to get the popular vote in that riding.
Personally, having been through an american election, I find it a far better system though not much better. It's basically representation by riding by popular vote. Somehow that works I suppose.
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