Despite a mostly female votership.

Rylan?

It's happened before, back in 2007.

What do you mean, despite?

Clearly that's the reason.

I think it's time to have seperate competitions for male and female singers.

The producers seemed to want this to happen- every time a girl was in the bottom 2 they got rid of her (they know the voting results, so sending it to deadlock is the same thing)

It feels kind of like the reverse of last year.

yeah females who by and large are attracted to males

Sarah was in Same Difference who got third.
Also the girl group Hope got fifth that year.

Edit: And Niki came fourth, too! I think you've got the wrong year

There's always a girl in the top 4 so this year is a new record. I thought Ella would be in the bottom 2 like I predicted but I thought she would stay