Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method

Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method in Voting Law

Definition of Electoral Quotient According to the D’hondt Method in the context of the United States election law: One of the options for the series of divisors used to distribute seats in list proportional representation systems which adopt the highest average method. The votes of a party or grouping are divided successively by 1, 2, 3, etc., as seats are allocated to it. Of the available formulas, D’Hondt tends to be the most favourable to larger parties.