Apportionment methods

DOI10.1016/J.MATHSOCSCI.2008.03.003MaRDI QIDQ943588zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Horst F. Niemeyer, Alice C. Niemeyer

Publication date 10 September 2008

Published in Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07528

zbMATH Keywords

Alabama paradoxapportionment methodd'Hondt methodHare/Hamilton methodSainte-Laguë method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Voting theory (91B12)

Abstract: Most democratic countries use election methods to transform election results into whole numbers which usually give the number of seats in a legislative body the parties obtained. Which election method does this best can be specified by measuring the error between the allocated result and the ideal proportion. We show how to find an election method which is best suited to a given error function. We also discuss several properties of election methods that have been labelled paradoxa. In particular we explain the highly publicised ``Alabama Paradox for the Hare/Hamilton method and show that other popular election methods come with their very own paradoxa.

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