When is a Majority not a Majority

I have produced a couple of flyers as below that probable say it all, while the adjacent pie charts show the number of MPs in the 2024 general election that didn’t receive a majority of constituency votes, those nationally and within the current government. But unless you go looking, it's not obvious from election night declarations and the pretence that they are elected with a Majority - well a few are, but otherwise if you are still calling it a Majority the value will be negative i.e. if won with less than 50% of vote.

Today we always have more than 2 candidates waiting for the returning officer’s announcement, so unless one candidate’s vote share is more than all the others put together it’s not a Majority. In 2024 at 85% of constituency declarations the winner was just the best of the bunch and the figure given as a “Majority” is in fact the Margin of Victory over the 2nd place candidate (or Plurality, the term widely used in US). If the arithmetic of Majority is used i.e. comparing the winner with all others, the result is negative.
For an example see results for Hendon where the winner was declared with a 15 vote "Majority" - but at least now there’s a link on “Majority” to the Wikipedia page explaining the misuse of the term, and a hover message (not on touch screens) defining a Majority and highlighting its common use with other meanings.

Is this use of Majority yet another of Cameron’s "enshrined in our constitution and integral to our history" - see History and Other links.

A second example