In the final outcome of the Palestinian elections the Hamas party took 74 seats of the 132 available seats. This equals 56%. The division of the seats between the national lists and the district lists were 29 from the national list and 45 in the district lists (74 seats in total).
The hidden statistics paint a very different figure. On the national list the Hamas received 43.94% of the vote meaning that 56.06% of the Palestinian voters did not vote for the Hamas on the national list.
On the district lists Hamas gained 68.18% of the seats with non-Hamas candidates taking on 31.82% of the seats. But in reality, in the districts Hamas candidates received only 36.45% of the votes while non-Hamas candidates received 63.54% of the votes.
In reality, a clear majority of Palestinians voted against the Hamas. What happened is that Hamas presented a unified list in each district while Fatah and others had a multiplicity of candidates which caused great divisions. While this explanation does not alter the results of the elections, it is somewhat more comforting to recognize that the voice of the Palestinian electorate did not give a majority of support to Hamas.