Stantler was fucking robbed of his votes.
There was clearly a problem with how the voting was done. I specifically remember a couple times where the voting went down whenever a thread on here started getting popular. I even took screenshots when it happened.
I know it sounds insane but I guaran-fucking-tee that some google slave bitch was watching these threads to sabotage the results.
Think about it. Stantler was the face of the natdex controversy and was used to show that people wanted all pokemon to be represented in galar. The Pokemon company very likely paid google off to make sure that he didn't get a lot of votes so that the natdex movement would look like a joke to everyone else. They are making a move to try and salvage the disaster that was SwSh and its dex.