Talk:President Gilligan/@comment-2604:2000:DE02:B600:290B:E875:35EB:C219-20190419022311/@comment-2605:6000:3F83:F100:31F6:FAD2:F0AD:E3D7-20200106190039

Mrs Howell and Mary Ann admitted to voting for Gilligan. The third vote for Gilligan was the one in his pocket. Since everyone else had already placed their votes in the ballot box, that third vote had to be Gilligan's. However, this is inconsistent with his later expression of surprise that he won the election.

By the way, nobody got a majority. They didn't establish any rules for dealing with a plurality, so it could be argued that nobody really won. When this happens in an election for the U.S. president, the House of Representatives selects the president. The castaways, of course, couldn't do this.