Quota rule

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 In mathematics and political science, the quota rule describes a desired property of proportional apportionment methods.

It says that the number of seats allocated to a party should be equal to their entitlement plus or minus one.

Equivalently, it is equal to the number of votes divided by the Hare quota.

Therefore, the quota rule states that the only two allocations allowed for party A are 1 or 2 seats on the council.

The theorem itself is broken up into several different proofs that cover a wide number of circumstances.

The largest remainder method does satisfy the quota rule.

The method works by assigning each party its seat quota, rounded down.

Although Webster's method can in theory violate the quota rule, such occurrences are extremely rare.