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Originally Posted by s|k
It's not really a majority rule if the vast majority of votes are represented in government as is the case in a parlimentary style system. Parties are given percentage of seats based on percentage of votes out of the total for that party.
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Ignoring that you've only referred to one of the kinds of parliamentary democracy, you're referring to a subset of democracy as a whole. The simplest kind is where everyone votes on everything, you're talking about a Representative Democracy.