Imperiali quota

Condorcet methods Positional voting Cardinal voting Quota-remainder methods Approval-based committees Fractional social choice Semi-proportional representation By ballot type Pathological response Strategic voting Paradoxes of majority rule Positive results The Imperiali quota or pseudoquota is an unusually-low electoral quota named after Belgian senator Pierre Imperiali.

[1] Some election laws used in largest remainder systems mandate it as the portion of votes needed to guarantee a seat.

The Czech Republic and Belgium are the only countries that currently use the Imperiali quota,[citation needed] while Italy and Ecuador used it in the past.

This method can be as simple as using relative standing in the votes (plurality).

More-popular parties do not suffer from vote splitting that might deny them additional seats; smaller parties might take a seat due to the Imperiali being low when under the Droop they might be denied.

It can lead to impossible allocations that assign parties one or two more seats than actually exist.

If by chance all candidates achieved or surpassed quota on the first count, the two seats then could have been allocated just based on relative vote tallies; in case of a tie, by a coin toss or some other method.