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Largest remainder method

Source: R/quota_methods.R
largest_remainder_method.Rd

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.

Value

The number of seats per party as a vector

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.

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)
#> [1] 5 2 1 1 1 0