<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><div>Vidar Wahlberg wrote (28 June 2013):<br></div><div>"I'm sticking to quota election because I don't fully grasp how to apply other methods (Sainte-Laguë, for instance) to determine when to start excluding parties."</div><div> </div><div>Vidar,<br>Here is a hopefully clearer rewording of my suggestion:</div><div><br> </div><div>*Use the best formula for apportioning seats in List PR </div><div id="yiv3644621610yui_3_7_2_55_1372247450724_50">(based on first preference votes) to provisionally apportion the seats. If <br><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>this apportionment gives every party at least one seat, confirm this apportionment as final. </div><div><br>Otherwise, eliminate the party voted top on the fewest ballots and transfer that party's second-preference votes IRV-style.</div><div> </div><div>Based on the
updated tallies (that include votes transferred from the eliminated party) again make a provisional apportionment. If that apportionment gives every uneliminated party at least one seat, then confirm it as final.</div><div> </div><div>Otherwise, again eliminate the party with the smallest vote tally (that might include votes from the already eliminated candidate) and again transfer votes IRV-style</div><div>to uneliminated parties.</div><div> </div><div>Keep repeating this process until an apportionment is confirmed as final (when every uneliminated party has at least one seat).*<br><br>I hope that is now clear.</div><div> </div><div>Chris Benham</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div></body></html>