Roma, if we reason this way, we could conduct a poll to find out where 40 people who voted for Korolev want to go – to Volgograd or Yekaterinburg. We could conduct polls endlessly. I don't understand why, in this case, the 24 votes for Yekaterinburg are somehow different from the 40 votes for Korolev?
Such a voting system is used in many places (including the presidential election in Russia) – if the voting does not result in an absolute majority, a second round is held between the two leaders (in this case, Volgograd and Korolev).