On 01/24/2013 01:08 PM, Ross Hyman wrote:
http://www.knesset.gov.il/elections19/eng/list/results_eng.aspx
The official Israeli election results show that of the parties
receiving more than the 2% threshold needed to get into the
Knesset, the center-left parties actually got a higher
percentage of the vote, 46.67%, than the right parties,
46.25%. Yet the center-left parties will get 59 seats and the
right parties 61 seats.
Israel uses what is basically D'Hondt (but with a negotiation system
where parties can pair up; such a agreement gives the larger party an
extra seat if the surpluses for the two add up to another seat).
Though I don't know which parties are center-left and which parties are
right in Israel, I imagine using Sainte-Laguë would give a fairer
distribution. I would also suggest not having the whole nation as one
big district. If accuracy is really important, it's possible to have
both that and multi-districts with something like the leveling seats system.
According to Wikipedia (and my Sainte-Laguë calculator), the actual (and
Sainte-Laguë) results are/would have been:
Party name Votes SeatsSainte-Laguë
Likud 884631 31 30
Yesh Atid 543280 19 18
Labor 432083 15 15
The Jewish Home 345935 12 12
Shas331800 11 11
United Torah Judaism196038 7 7
Hatnuah 189168 6 6
Meretz 172382 6 6
United Arab List138362 4 5
Hadash 113610 4 4
Balad96926 3 3
Kadima 79487 2 3
The differences are that Likud and Yesh Atid would get a seat less each,
and UAL and Kadima would get one more each.
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