I do not understand this comment. It would be a coin toss if we were talking about random chance, but nobody flips a coin when going into a voting booth.

All that can be truthfully said is that N people wanted to stay, and N + Y wanted to leave, where Y is a small number. One of the negative sides of democracy - sometimes more people wind up disappointed than others, but the only thing that matters at the end of the day is 50% plus one person.