Hello Ralph! You in reply to me wrote: >>Can you prove this? Seems not so obvious to me... > > It is based on the assumption that the "cost" in votes to get elected > is roughly the same in every election. If it always costs 1000 votes > to get elected and a candiate gets 300 votes, the candidate is 30% of > the way to get a seat.
Sorry to insist, but can you prove the proportionality? I tried some minutes but failed, so at least it is not obvious... What is obvious is that more votes lead to being elected more often (=monotonicity), and having non-zero votes leads to being elected eventually. Yours, Jobst ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
