[EM] Remainders and the Ranking of Political Parties:

[Donald Davison]

Greetings list members,

If voters were allowed to rank the political parties then the lowest
remainder could be transferred to the other parties according to the
percentages of the next choices of all the voters of a party.  This would
be something like using Irving to deal with the remainders in a Party List
method election.

For example:  If the next choices of Party A were:

Party B 20%   Party C 25%   Party D 10%   No Choice 45%

Then after seats were divided according to Hare quota, and if Party A
happens to have the lowest remainder, then Party A's remainder would be
divided according to these percentages and transferred.  After which the
next lowest remainder, of some other party, would also be divided and
transferred until the number of remaining parties equal the number of seats
to be filled.

If during the routine, a party happened to have more votes than a Hare
quota, that party would gain one of the remaining seats and its new
remainder would also be subject to being divided and transferred whenever
it happened to be the lowest.


Donald,