[EM] more questions about PR allocation formulas

[Markus Schulze]

Dear James Green-Armytage,

you wrote (13 Oct 2003):
>     One question I have is about the Droop quota. Is it always expressed
> as (votes / (seats + 1)) + 1, or is (votes / (seats + 1)) also the Droop
> quota? I thought that they both were, essentially, but I was reading some
> of Nicolaus Tideman's work, and he says that only the former is the Droop
> quota, whereas he calls the latter the Newland-Britton (NB) quota. What do
> you guys think? Is there another name for the (votes / (seats + 1)) quota
> besides NB?

In some countries (votes / (seats + 1)) + 1 and (votes / (seats + 1))
are called "Hagenbach-Bischoff Quota" (e.g. in Malta, Switzerland,
Luxemburg).

Markus Schulze