As we can see, there were 170,021 votes for Hamas (Change and Reform) candidates in North Gaza and 146,818 votes for Fatah candidate; a total of 390,194 votes were cast. Hamas, despite receiving only 44 percent of the vote, gained 100 percent of the seats. Fatah, meanwhile, received only 6 percent less votes, and yet won exactly none of the seats in this district.
The election in North Gaza illustrates the severe lack of proportionality in the electoral system. The use of this system led to a full 66 perecnt of the votes in this district unrepresented in the final seat allotments. This shows how how the structure of the electoral system might lead to disproportionate outcomes; the next example will show a district that could easily have been won by Fatah had it not been for staggering incompetence and strategic failure.
