On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Juho <[email protected]> wrote: > Droop guarantees the first seat already with somewhat less than votes/seats > number of votes but d'Hondt does not => ??
Sorry meant a 4 seater. In a four seater, a party with 20%+ of the vote is guaranteed a seat no matter how the other votes go, d'Hondt and Droop. A party with 79% of the vote and 3 seats will have a divider of 4 and will thus be unable to take the last seat, as the 20%+ party will have a divider of 1 and 79/4 is less than 20. Also, in d'Hondt splitting a party into 2 sub-parties can never result in an increase in the number of seats. Thus, no matter how that 79% is split between other parties, the 20%+ party is guaranteed to at least retain its seat. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
