Abstract:In parliamentary elections biproportional divisor methods translate votes into seats so that, for each district, fixed seat contingents are met and that every party receives as many seats as the overall vote counts reflect. A set of district-divisors and party-divisors ensures that proportionality is respected both within the districts and within the parties. The divisors can be calculated by means of the alternating scaling algorithm (AS-algorithm) which is formally introduced. It is the discrete variant of t… Show more
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