[EM] Davison-SNTV

[Olli Salmi]

At 20:17 -0000 28.12.2002, Donald E Davison wrote:
> * Davison-SNTV is your next method of improved proportionality.  This is
>my variant of SNTV.  In this variant, instead of merely eliminating all the
>lower candidates at once, this method will eliminate them one by one
>according to the following rule:  `The candidate to be eliminated shall be
>the lowest candidate of the party with the lowest average votes per
>candidate.'

How does this method differ from d'Hondt's rule which, when applied to
SNTV, is: `The candidate to be elected shall be the highest candidate of
the party with the highest average votes per candidate.'

Olli Salmi



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