Trump ' s been pretty clear he plans on revoking every executive action Obama has done . So anything Obama canwill do in his final months will get stalled until Trump is in charge , which will be wiped away . The pipeline protesters have lost . It ' s now only a matter of time . <| sep |> The same situation can occur in a parliamentary system . A partycoalition can get more total votes than its opponents , yet lose in the number of seats won in parliament winner chooses the Prime Minister . And it has happened . In the 2015 UK elections , the Scottish Nationals got less votes than the Liberal Democrats 4 . 7 % vs . 8 %. Yet the SNP won 56 seats while the LD ' s only got 8 seats . In Canada , the winning Liberals got 7 . 5 % more total votes than the Conservatives , but won nearly twice the number of seats .