The highest averages, divisor, or divide-and-round methods are a family of apportionment rules, i.e. algorithms for fair division of seats in a legislature...

The Huntington–Hill method, sometimes called method of equal proportions, is a highest averages method for assigning seats in a legislature to political...

The Webster method, also called the Sainte-Laguë method (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t.la.ɡy]), is a highest averages apportionment method for allocating...

It belongs to the class of highest-averages methods. Compared to ideal proportional representation, the D'Hondt method reduces somewhat the political...

popular highest averages methods (also called divisor methods). By far the most common quota method are the largest remainders or quota-shift methods, which...

apportionment methods can be classified into two categories: The highest averages method (or divisor method), including the D'Hondt method (Jefferson method) is...

chosen highest averages method, modify the regional divisors such that the apportionment within the region is correct with the chosen highest averages method...

STV systems can be thought of as a variation on the largest remainders method that uses candidate-based solid coalitions, rather than party lists.[clarification...

different methods of allocating seats in proportional representation systems. There are two main methods: highest average and largest remainder. Highest average...

seats): Result: A = 2, B = 2, C = 1 The Sainte-Laguë (Webster) method is a highest averages method using odd-numbered divisors (1, 3, 5, ...) to promote more...

Ranked Pairs (RP), also known as the Tideman method, is a tournament-style system of ranked voting first proposed by Nicolaus Tideman in 1987. If there...

parliament, a kind of a highest-averages method This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Adams method. If an internal link led...

(numerical analysis) Finite volume method (numerical analysis) Highest averages method (voting systems) Method of exhaustion Method of infinite descent (number...

apportionment methods can be categorized into largest remainder methods and highest averages methods. Malapportionment is the creation of electoral districts...

The Borda method or order of merit is a positional voting rule that gives each candidate a number of points equal to the number of candidates ranked below...

Coombs' method is a ranked voting system. Like instant-runoff (IRV-RCV), Coombs' method is a sequential-loser method, where the last-place finisher according...

In ancient Athenian democracy, sortition was the traditional and primary method for appointing political officials, and its use was regarded as a principal...

Territory. With its use in 1909, it was one of the first uses of the Gregory method for transfers of winner's surplus votes. The name is derived from the names...

method (/ˈʃʊltsə/), also known as the beatpath method, is a single winner ranked-choice voting rule developed by Markus Schulze. The Schulze method is...

a possibility violates the principle of one man, one vote. Positional methods and score voting satisfy the participation criterion. All deterministic...

closed party lists are used, with the two seats distributed using a highest averages method. The Senate (Sénat) has 33 members, 22 members elected by the regions...

voters than candidates, any Condorcet method will converge on a single Condorcet winner, who will have the highest probability of being the best candidate...

support for a single favorite. Every voting method that does not satisfy either later-no-harm (most methods) or monotonicity (such as instant-runoff voting)...

A Condorcet method (English: /kɒndɔːrˈseɪ/; French: [kɔ̃dɔʁsɛ]) is an election method that elects the candidate who wins a majority of the vote in every...

seats, 14 were directly elected by universal suffrage under the highest averages method, while 12 were voted on from the Indirect election, and 7 from...

ranks as weights; these systems are called positional voting. In the Borda method, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd... candidates on each ballot receive 1, 2, 3... points...

give each candidate a numerical score, and the candidate with the highest average score is elected. Score voting includes the well-known approval voting...

Instant runoff falls under the plurality-with-elimination family of voting methods, and is thus closely related to rules like the two-round runoff system...

from a single set of ordinal preferences. The two-round system is such a method, because the voters are not forced to vote according to a single ordinal...

matchups. In systems with absolute rating categories such as score and highest median methods, it is not clear how the majority criterion should be defined. There...