I'm not entirely clear on the algorithm here. Is it:
1. Assign a seat to current highest vote getter.
2. Divide that party's votes by (1+number of seats they've been awarded
so far).
3. Return to step 1, until all seats are assigned.
Nick Winter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guido Tiemann [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Programming Problem
>
>
> Hm, somehow my posting got returned and. Hence, I send it
> again, hopefully
> that will not be a double posting.
>
> GT
>
> _____________________
>
> Hi!!
>
> My topic is not so much a specific or technical question, but
> a full-scale
> request for help. I already did a quick and dirty solution
> working with
> many dummy variables. Unfortunately, it turned out to be
> neither elegant
> nor "quick".
>
> My problem: I would like to program a vote --> seat
> conversion in electoral
> systems applying the d'Hondt formula. Hence, in my dataset
> each observation
> consists of the absolute number of votes for each party i
> (v1, v2, v3, ...,
> vi) and I want to obtain the respective number of seats (m1,
> m2, m3, ...,
> mi). The d'Hondt highest averages method, applied in an
> electoral district
> returning m seats, works as follows: The absolute vote
> numbers are divided
> by a sequence of integers which, in case of d'Hondt, is
> simply 1,2,3,...,
> and the m seats are sequentially awarded to the parties with
> the highest
> averages.
>
> An Example concerning a six-member district:
>
> div 1 div 2 div 3
>
> V1 41000 (1) 20500 (3) 13667 (6) = 3 seats
> V2 29000 (2) 14500 (5) 9667 = 2 seats
> V3 17000 (4) 8500 = 1 seat
> V4 13000 = no seat
>
> In this example, the first seat is awarded to party 1
> (receiving 41000
> votes), the second to party 2 (receiving 29000) votes, the
> third again to
> party 1 (for 41000/2=20500 votes) and so on.
>
> My quick and dirty solution deals with lots of dummy
> variables, and is for
> that reason pretty slow. I suppose some sort of matrix
> programming would do
> much better, but I was not able to program it.
>
> Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Guido Tiemann
>
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