D'Hondt method
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt (1841–1901), who described it in 1878 for proportional allocation of parliamentary seats to the parties.
Pronunciation
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[edit]the D'Hondt method
- A highest-averages method for allocating seats, used to achieve proportional representation in elections, and often favoring large parties and coalitions.
- 2021, Kazuaki Nagatomi, The Operation of the Japanese Electoral System since 1994, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 142:
- Secondly, this chapter aims to substantiate the inference that the D'Hondt method also gets the largest parties overrepresented.