seats: Allocating Seats by any method

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Allocating Seats by any method

Description

This function is a wrapper for seats_ha and seats_lr functions. A shortcut to allocate seats by any method selected by its string name.

Developed by Jorge Albuja Delgado ([e-mail]).

Usage

seats(parties, votes, n_seats, method)

Arguments

parties	vector of names of parties, must be uniques
votes	vector of votes, same length as parties.
n_seats	number of seats to be allocated (integer equal or greater 1).
method	string according seat allocating method: "dhondt", "webster", "danish", "imperiali", "hill-huntington", "dean", "mod-saint-lague", "equal-proportions", "adams", "hare", "droop", "hangenbach-bischoff", "imperial", "mod-imperial" or "quotas-remainders".

Value

A tibble

Examples

seats(parties = c("A", "B", "C"),
       votes = c(100, 150, 60),
       n_seats = 5,
       method = "hare")

seats(parties = c("V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"),
      votes = c(100, 150, 60, 80, 160),
      n_seats = 15,
      method = "droop")
      
seats(parties = c("A", "B", "C"),
       votes = c(100, 150, 60),
       n_seats = 5,
       method = "dhondt")

seats(parties = c("V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"),
      votes = c(100, 150, 60, 80, 160),
      n_seats = 15,
      method = "webster")

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