https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Palestinian_legislative_election
The numbers I found were over 440k votes for Hamas. With over a million votes cast. How did 80% not vote? In my initial post I said exclude women and children as I am thinking they don’t get a vote. That’s near a half million votes. I could be wrong but, nothing much forceful has been done since to remove them from power by the population. And who really knows how many support them at this point. I’d think it’s 50/50 worst case. In which case…. That’s roughly a million people. It’s not a moot point. Certainly not 80% of the population opposes their ideals and methods. At least prior to the last few weeks.