The D'Hondt method reduces [[political fragmentation]] throughby allocating more seats to larger parties,. thisThis effect is strongest for small [[electoral district]] sizes.; for legislatures with many members, elected in a single national list, the effects of using any particular proportional method are negligible.
An additionalalternative approach to reduce political fragmentation are [[electoral threshold]]s, where any list which does not achieve that threshold will not have any seats allocated to it ([[wasted vote]]), even if it received enough votes to have otherwise been rewarded with a seat. Examples of countries using the D'Hondt method with a threshold are [[Albania]] (3% for single parties, 5% for coalitions of two or more parties, 1% for independent individuals); [[Denmark]] (2%); [[East Timor]], [[Spain]], [[Serbia]], and [[Montenegro]] (3%); [[Israel]] (3.25%); [[Slovenia]] and [[Bulgaria]] (4%); [[Croatia]], [[Fiji]], [[Romania]], [[Russia]] and [[Tanzania]] (5%); [[Turkey]] (7%); [[Poland]] (5%, or 8% for coalitions; but does not apply for ethnic-minority parties),<ref name="Lebeda-H">
