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Journal of Representative Democracy
Volume 36, 1999 - Issue 3
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Electoral experimentation in the UK

Party list proportional representation: Explaining d'Hondt

Paul Wilder Secretary of the McDougall Trust
Pages 232-234 | Published online: 06 Jul 2007
 
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In 1882 Belgian jurist Victor d'Hondt published an influential pamphlet entitled, Système Pratique et Raisonné de Représentation Proportionnelle. In doing so, he gave his name to a now widely used ‘divisor’ method of seat allocation under party list systems of proportional representation.

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