[EM] Hare and Droop, d'Hondt and Sainte-Lague

Chris Benham chrisbenham at bigpond.com
Sat Jul 26 09:57:21 PDT 2003


Kevin,
Have you seen this article by Mike Ossipoff?
http://www.barnsdale.demon.co.uk/vote/appor.html
Hare was a person who I think was associated with both early STV-PR and IRV.
I have never heard of  the Droop or Hare quotas being used for list PR. 
For STV PR the Droop quota
has (I gather on sound solid grounds) superceded the Hare quota.
I know that the d'Hondt allocation method, because it always rounds 
down, favours larger parties. (If you
join the totals of two parties, they can't get any less seats and they 
might get an extra one).

Chris Benham







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