On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 04:04:03PM +0300, Juho Laatu wrote: > Yes, it is possible and even typical that many small parties get their best > results in the same district. One simple fix (and one step more complex > algorithm) is to allocate full quota seats first and fractional seats only > after them. This means that the results can be off only by less than one > quota for each party in each region. (Also other more ideal methods can be > developed.) I wonder if accuracy of one quota would be sufficient.
I may misunderstand you here, but I'm confused as of what would be the "fractional seats". Using Sainte-Laguë there's no quota and thus no fraction. Is your idea to apportion seats by first using a quota (quota = votes / seats), then apportion the remaining seats (sequentially giving out seats to party A, party B, party C, ...) as described earlier in this thread? That might produce a sensible result, I'll see if I can modify the code to do something like this. Let me know if this is not what you meant. -- Regards, Vidar Wahlberg ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
