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It bugs me that there is such a simple solution: just count total votes
This is for members of Congress. Simply counting total votes would mean 100% of the delegation to the house are from whatever party gets 50%+1 votes.
Yes, the majority of votes would elect the district’s chosen candidate. That’s correct.
All congressional districts already work like that. Gerrymandering is the practice of re-drawing distirct borders within an area so that your team has more districts with your voters as the majority.
The whole point though is that everybody is supposed to get equal representation.
You're confusing the districts with Presidential election results.
In the presidential election the district lines actually don't matter in terms of the outcome. They are just usually reported on election night as "by district". This is likely what you are confusing or misremembering.
But, the state itself is based on a popular vote for the presidential election that determines who wins ALL of the states "electoral college votes". Yes, stupidly confusing i know.
Meaning after counting all the votes in the entire state the winner is declared based on popular vote and ALL the "electoral votes" of those states will go to that winner.
Now, this is true for all BUT two states. Main and Nebraska are the exception. Their electoral votes are not "winner take all" for the popular vote. So, if it was one of those states what you are thinking would be correct actually. They split their electoral votes of the state based on the districts.
What is being discussed about districts in the OPs image is the redrawing of district maps. Each district elects a single representative in The House of Representatives. This is won by popular vote within each district and each district is independently represented. The votes from one district have nothing to do with the votes from another in this case.
This has always been a means of drawing the lines such that more of a certain party is likely to get more representatives. But, historically, this has primarily been aggressively done in red states. Especially in the south in order to reduce black voter and minority voter representation. Usually by attempting to draw a single district with as many black and minority voters as possible so they only get one representative.
Hope that clears up the confusion. You're being downvoted but I think you're just confused in a very purposely confusing electoral system.