Yep, that is exactly the good thing, anyone can use his/her own metrics, though technically 50% + 1 vote is the majority, and democracy works that way, 52% is virtually indistinguishable from 48% as I see it.
Does democracy work that way?
Bush jr didn't get a majority and in blighty in the last election the Tories 'won' with 43% of the vote, which netted them 56% of the seats.
America is a constitutional republic, not a democracy