if Reform had nearly 5million votes why do they only have 4 seats

Question

Lib Dem got 3.5mil votes and have 71 seats, Sinn Fein have 210,000 and seven seats

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Answer 1

Pretty sure the only time a Republican president has had more votes in my lifetime is Bush’s 2nd term but here we are, democracies do not always go purely by popular vote, they have weird labyrinthine rules