[EM] No geographical districts

Raph Frank raphfrk at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 08:40:10 PDT 2008


On 9/11/08, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>  Why weakest? What is the "weakest of each party's strongest candidates"?

It means find the candidate in each party with the highest vote.
These are the party's stongest candidates.

You then assign the seat to the weakest of them (but only if the party
is entitled to another seat).

My thinking was that if you assign them in a different order, you
could end up with a situation where a small party cannot be assigned a
seat that they are entitled to as they only ran in a few districts and
those districts have already been filled.

By assigning to the weakest party first, the chances of that are lessened.

A larger party would likely have someone running in all
constituencies, so should have someone to take their seats near the
end.



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