Even in places without an electoral board/college, the popular vote might not reflect who ends up in power.
In the last general election in the UK the SNP got 1,454,436 votes, and ended up with 56 MPs in Westminster. The LibDems got 2,415,862 votes but only 8 MPs, while UKIP got 3,881,099 votes (more than both put together), but only one single MP.
Looking back at that last one, I shouldn’t have been so surprised about brexit I guess
