D'Hondt method: Difference between revisions

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! Seats won <br />(bold)

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|Party A quotient <br/>seats after round

seats after round

|'''100,000<br/>1'''

|50,000<br/>1

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|'''4'''

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|Party B quotient <br/>seats after round

seats after round

|80,000<br/>0

|'''80,000<br/>1'''

|40,000<br/>1

|'''40,000<br/>2' !''

|26,667<br/>2

|26,667<br/>2

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|'''0'''

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While in this example, parties B, C, and D formed a coalition against Party A. You can see that Party A received 3 seats instead of 4 due to the coalition having 30,000 more votes than Party A.

{| class="wikitable"

! Round <br/>(1 seat per round)

!Round

! 1

(1 seat per round)

!1 2

!2 3

!3 4

!4 5

!5 6

!6 7

!7 8

! Seats won <br/>(bold)

!8

!Seats won

(bold)

|-

|Party A quotient

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{|class="wikitable"

! Denominator ||!! /1 ||!! /2 ||!! /3 ||!! /4 ||!! Seats <br />won (*) ||!! True proportion

|-

|| Party A || '''100,000*''' || '''50,000*''' || '''33,333*''' || '''25,000*''' || align="center" | '''4'''

| align="center" | 3.5

|-

|| Party B || '''80,000*''' || '''40,000*''' || '''26,667*''' || 20,000 || align="center" | '''3'''

| align="center" | 2.8

|-

|| Party C || '''30,000*''' || 15,000 || 10,000 || 7,500 || align="center" | '''1'''

| align="center" | 1.0

|-

|| Party D || 20,000 || 10,000 || 6,667 || 5,000 || align="center" | '''0'''

| align="center" | 0.7

|-

! colspan=5 |Total Total
!! align="center" |8 8
!! align="center" | 8

|}