How proportional is proportional representation?
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: How proportional is proportional representation?
zbMATH Open document ID: 0618.92021
DOI: 10.1007/BF03026117
published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: In a very popular way the author discusses the problem of division of seats in some assembly between parties provided the number of votes received by these parties at the elections is known. The author shows why the proportional distribution is not adequate and discusses different quota methods, e.g. D'Hondt's rule, Droop quota etc. and their properties. Finally he proposes an algorithm of seats allocation and proves in a theorem that this algorithm ''results in each party receiving at least its Droop minimum of seats, unless every party has an exact number of Droop quotas of votes''.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91D99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 91B14
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92F05
zbMATH DE Number: 4003976
zbMATH Keywords: D'Hondt's rule
zbMATH Keywords: Droop quota
zbMATH Keywords: algorithm of seats allocation
zbMATH Keywords: Droop minimum of seats
author: Douglas R. Woodall
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
cites work: The Quota Method of Apportionment
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