Qadhdhafi's daughter's ignorance

"In an election where one candidate won with 50 percent of the vote and another lost with 48 percent, she asked, “Do you call this democracy? Just this one vote? What happened to the 48 percent who said ‘no’?”"  Somebody should inform `A'ishah Qadhdhafi that many Western democracies resort to proportional representation to avoid this problem that she talks about (common in single-member district systems like in the US).