largest_remainder_method: Largest remainder method

In polettif/proporz: Proportional Apportionment

Largest remainder method

Description

Allocate seats based on the largest fractional remainder. The largest remainder method is also known as: Hamilton, Hare-Niemeyer or Vinton method.

Usage

largest_remainder_method(votes, n_seats, quorum = 0)

Arguments

votes	numeric vector with number of votes for each party
n_seats	total number of seats
quorum	Vote threshold a party must reach. Used as fraction of total votes within if less than 1 otherwise as number of votes.

Details

The numbers of votes for each party is divided by a quota representing the number of votes required for a seat. Then, each party receives the rounded down quota value as seats. The remaining seats are given to the party with the largest remainder until all seats have been distributed.

Value

The number of seats per party as a vector

Note

Only the quota ⁠total votes / total seats⁠ (which is used by the aforementioned methods) is implemented.

See Also

proporz()

Examples

votes = c(47000, 16000, 15800, 12000, 6100, 3100)
largest_remainder_method(votes, 10)

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