"But why doesn't the person with the most votes win?" - explaining the results to a child

[Hulababy]

8y DD was asking about the election this morning, but I am not really sure I can explain it all clear enough. I don't know enough about it all in order to clarify it in simple terms.

In her opinion - the person who got the most votes should "win" and be prime minister.

How to explain why this is not the case? Not sure she gets the whole majority issue.

Maybe school will have covered it a bit (fingers crossed).

My son is ten and follows football and can explain all the stupid complicated rules and regulations.

So I was trying to explain the PR/First Past the Post issues using a football analogy.

E.G. Celtic and Rangers each play ten matches against other teams. Celtic win every match by one goal to nil. Rangers win every game by ten goals to nil.

On paper they have both won exactly the same number of matches however it can be seen that Rangers have scored ten times as many goals. This situation is evened out by the use of the 'goal difference' factor in determining each teams position on the league table. Simple?!!

Anyway I remember learning all about the Britsh Election System as part of modern studies classes in high school...but my 15 nephew was here yesterday and told me that he has never encountered this as part of his subjects.