Elections where the winning party lost the popular vote.

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Malaysia 2013

The conservative Barisan Nasional (dominated by the Malay ethnic party) fell below the opposition alliance (a trio of equal size parties - the moderate Islamists of PAS, the liberals of the PJP and the leftists of DAP) for the first time in the history of Malaysian democracy, but the BN still enjoyed a healthy 133 - 89 margin.

South Australia 2010 and 2014

For two elections running, the South Australian Labour party has trailed the LNP in the TPP vote, but still have remained in government. The Liberals keep running up their margins in the base, but cannot quite grab the all important marginals.

Queensland under Joh Bjelke Petersen was also amusingly gerrymandered to the benefit of rurals, so the ALP often won the popular vote but was kept out of office.

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This has happened a few times in Australian states. The last two SA elections Labor eked out wins despite losing the two party vote. And of course, there is the infamous history of Queensland as essentially a quasi-democratic fiefdom of John Bjelke Peterson.

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This has happened a few times in Australian states. The last two SA elections Labor eked out wins despite losing the two party vote. And of course, there is the infamous history of Queensland as essentially a quasi-democratic fiefdom of John Bjelke Peterson.

Sir Joh was christened Johannes Bjelke-Petersen.

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