Seat Allocation and Seat Bias under the Jefferson--D'Hondt Method
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| author | Boratyn, Daria Słomczyński, Wojciech Stolicki, Dariusz |
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| contents | We prove that under the Jefferson--D'Hondt method of apportionment, given certain distributional assumptions regarding mean rounding residuals, as well as absence of correlations between party vote shares, district sizes (in votes), and multipliers, the seat share of each relevant party is an affine function of the aggregate vote share, the number of relevant parties, and the mean district magnitude. We further show that the first of those assumptions follows approximately from more general ones regarding smoothness, vanishing at the extremes, and total variation of the density of the distribution of vote shares. We also discuss how our main result differs from the simple generalization of the single-district asymptotic seat bias formulae, and how it can be used to derive an estimate of the natural threshold and certain properties thereof. |
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| spellingShingle | Seat Allocation and Seat Bias under the Jefferson--D'Hondt Method Boratyn, Daria Słomczyński, Wojciech Stolicki, Dariusz Physics and Society Probability 91B12 (Primary), 91B14, 65B15 (Secondary) We prove that under the Jefferson--D'Hondt method of apportionment, given certain distributional assumptions regarding mean rounding residuals, as well as absence of correlations between party vote shares, district sizes (in votes), and multipliers, the seat share of each relevant party is an affine function of the aggregate vote share, the number of relevant parties, and the mean district magnitude. We further show that the first of those assumptions follows approximately from more general ones regarding smoothness, vanishing at the extremes, and total variation of the density of the distribution of vote shares. We also discuss how our main result differs from the simple generalization of the single-district asymptotic seat bias formulae, and how it can be used to derive an estimate of the natural threshold and certain properties thereof. |
| title | Seat Allocation and Seat Bias under the Jefferson--D'Hondt Method |
| topic | Physics and Society Probability 91B12 (Primary), 91B14, 65B15 (Secondary) |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08291 |