Hare quota

The Hare quota is often used to set electoral thresholds and to calculate apportionments under party-list proportional representation when using the largest remainder method.

In Brazil's largest remainder system the Hare quota is used to set the basic number of seats allocated to each party or coalition.

For geographical constituencies, the SAR government adopted weakly-proportional representation using the largest remainder method with Hare quota in 1997.

[citation needed] Typically, largest remainders paired with the Hare quota produces unbiased results that are difficult to manipulate.

[7] However, the combination of extremely small districts, no electoral thresholds, and low led to a system that parties could manipulate using careful vote management.

[8] The Democratic Party, for example, filled three separate tickets in the 8-seat New Territories West constituency in the 2008 Legislative Council elections.

This can make the method behave like the single non-transferable vote in practice, as has happened in Hong Kong.