Dear James Green-Armytage, you wrote (13 Oct 2003): > One question I have is about the Droop quota. Is it always expressed > as (votes / (seats + 1)) + 1, or is (votes / (seats + 1)) also the Droop > quota? I thought that they both were, essentially, but I was reading some > of Nicolaus Tideman's work, and he says that only the former is the Droop > quota, whereas he calls the latter the Newland-Britton (NB) quota. What do > you guys think? Is there another name for the (votes / (seats + 1)) quota > besides NB?
In some countries (votes / (seats + 1)) + 1 and (votes / (seats + 1)) are called "Hagenbach-Bischoff Quota" (e.g. in Malta, Switzerland, Luxemburg). Markus Schulze ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
