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Comment by arethuza | Hacker News Reader

He did win the 1951 general election:

Yes, without winning the popular vote. From your link:

     Churchill: 13,717,851
        Attlee: 13,948,385

That doesn't really count for anything in our election system.

The point was about Churchill's popularity in Britain (real vs myth), not the British electoral system.