“…It is also employed, in combination with other methods, in Austria, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Japan, and had been historically used in, among others, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Moldova, Norway, and Sweden. 3 It is well known that the Jefferson-D'Hondt method is biased in favor of larger parties (see e.g., Humphreys, 1911;Huntington, 1921;1928;1931;Morse, Von Neumann & Eisenhart, 1948;Rae, 1967;Taagepera & Laakso, 1980;Carstairs, 1980;Woodall, 1986;Taagepera & Shugart, 1989;Lijphart, 1990;Gallagher, 1991;Oyama & Ichimori 1995;Benoit, 2000;Balinski & Young, 2001: 72-74;Marshall, Olkin & Pukelsheim, 2002;van Eck et al, 2005;Pukelsheim, 2014). The magnitude of such bias has been estimated by Sainte-Laguë (1910), Pólya (1918aPólya ( , 1918bPólya ( , 1919aPólya ( , 1919bPólya ( , 1919c, Schuster et al (2003), Schwingenschlögl & Drton (2004), Drton & Schwingenschlögl (2005), Schwingenschlögl (2008), Pukelsheim (2014), and Janson (2014).…”