Devdas won five presidential elections.
Devdas (2002 Hindi film) . The film also won five National Awards and a further ten Filmfare Awards , tied with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge with the most Filmfare Awards any film had won at the time ( later beaten in 2005 by Bhansali 's Black ) . In representative democracy , the popular vote is the total number or percentage of votes received by a party , candidate or group of candidates , as opposed to the number of seats they win in the representative assembly or , as in the United States , in the Electoral College in a presidential election .