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</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle">A joint <a href="Portal%3APolitics" title="Portal:Politics">Politics</a> and <a href="Portal%3AEconomics" title="Portal:Economics">Economics</a> series</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="border-top:1px #fafafa solid; border-bottom:1px #fafafa solid; background:#efefef; background: var(--background-color-interactive, #efefef); color: var(--color-base, #000); padding:0.2em;"><a href="Social_choice_theory" title="Social choice theory">Social choice</a> and <a href="Electoral_system" title="Electoral system">electoral systems</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image"></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-above">
<div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Social_choice_theory" title="Social choice theory">Social choice</a></li><li><a href="Mechanism_design" title="Mechanism design">Mechanism design</a></li><li><a href="Comparative_politics" title="Comparative politics">Comparative politics</a></li><li><a href="Comparison_of_voting_rules" title="Comparison of voting rules">Comparison</a></li><li><a href="List_of_electoral_systems" title="List of electoral systems">List</a><span class="nowrap">&nbsp;</span>(<a href="List_of_electoral_systems_by_country" title="List of electoral systems by country">By country</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="text-align:left;">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef; border-top:1px solid;background: var(--background-color-interactive, #efefef); color: var(--color-base, #000);;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Single-member_district" title="Single-member district">Single-winner methods</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><b>Single vote – <a href="Plurality_voting" title="Plurality voting">plurality</a> methods</b>
<ul><li><a href="First-past-the-post_voting" title="First-past-the-post voting">First preference plurality (FPP)</a></li>
<li><a href="Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">Two-round</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="American_English" title="American English">US</a>:</abbr> <a href="Nonpartisan_primary" title="Nonpartisan primary">Jungle primary</a>)
<ul><li><a href="Partisan_primary" class="mw-redirect" title="Partisan primary">Partisan primary</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">Instant-runoff</a>
<ul><li><abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="British_English" title="British English">UK</a>:</abbr> Alternative vote (AV)</li>
<li><abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="American_English" title="American English">US</a>:</abbr> Ranked-choice (RCV)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Party_block_voting" class="mw-redirect" title="Party block voting">Party block voting</a></li>
<li><a href="Plurality_block_voting" title="Plurality block voting">Plurality block voting</a></li></ul>
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<p><b><a href="Condorcet_method" title="Condorcet method">Condorcet methods</a></b>
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<ul><li><a href="Tideman_alternative_method" title="Tideman alternative method">Condorcet-IRV</a></li>
<li><a href="Round-robin_voting" title="Round-robin voting">Round-robin voting</a>
<ul><li><a href="Minimax_Condorcet_method" title="Minimax Condorcet method">Minimax</a></li>
<li><a href="Kemeny_method" title="Kemeny method">Kemeny</a></li>
<li><a href="Schulze_method" title="Schulze method">Schulze</a></li>
<li><a href="Ranked_pairs" title="Ranked pairs">Ranked pairs</a></li>
<li><a href="Maximal_lottery" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximal lottery">Maximal lottery</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<p><b><a href="Positional_voting" title="Positional voting">Positional voting</a></b>
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<ul><li><a href="First-preference_plurality" class="mw-redirect" title="First-preference plurality">Plurality</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="Sequential_elimination_method" title="Sequential elimination method">el.</a></abbr> <a href="Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting">IRV</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Borda_count" title="Borda count">Borda count</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="Sequential_elimination_method" title="Sequential elimination method">el.</a></abbr> <a href="Baldwin's_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Baldwin's method">Baldwin</a>, <abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="Highest_median_voting_rules" title="Highest median voting rules">Mdn.</a></abbr> <a href="Bucklin_voting" title="Bucklin voting">Bucklin</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Anti-plurality_voting" title="Anti-plurality voting">Antiplurality</a> (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="Sequential_elimination_method" title="Sequential elimination method">el.</a></abbr> <a href="Coombs_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Coombs method">Coombs</a>)</li></ul>
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<p><b><a href="Rated_voting" title="Rated voting">Cardinal voting</a></b>
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<ul><li><a href="Score_voting" title="Score voting">Score voting</a></li>
<li><a href="Approval_voting" title="Approval voting">Approval voting</a></li>
<li><a href="Highest_median_voting_rules" title="Highest median voting rules">Majority judgment</a></li>
<li><a href="STAR_voting" title="STAR voting">STAR voting</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef; border-top:1px solid;background: var(--background-color-interactive, #efefef); color: var(--color-base, #000);;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">Proportional representation</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><b><a href="Party-list_proportional_representation" title="Party-list proportional representation">Party-list</a></b>
<ul><li><a href="Apportionment_(politics)" title="Apportionment (politics)">Apportionment</a>
<ul><li><a href="Highest_averages_method" title="Highest averages method">Highest averages</a></li>
<li><a href="Largest_remainder_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Largest remainder method">Largest remainders</a></li>
<li><a href="National_remnant" title="National remnant">National remnant</a></li>
<li><a href="Biproportional_apportionment" title="Biproportional apportionment">Biproportional</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Electoral_list" title="Electoral list">List type</a>
<ul><li><a href="Closed_list" title="Closed list">Closed list</a></li>
<li><a href="Open_list" title="Open list">Open list</a></li>
<li><a href="Panachage" title="Panachage">Panachage</a></li>
<li><a href="Justified_representation" title="Justified representation">List-free PR</a></li>
<li><a href="Localized_list" title="Localized list">Localized list</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<p><b><a href="Electoral_quota" title="Electoral quota">Quota-remainder methods</a></b>
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<ul><li><a href="Single_transferable_vote" title="Single transferable vote">Hare STV</a></li>
<li><a href="Schulze_STV" title="Schulze STV">Schulze STV</a></li>
<li><a href="CPO-STV" title="CPO-STV">CPO-STV</a></li>
<li><a href="Quota_Borda_system" title="Quota Borda system">Quota Borda</a></li></ul>
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<p><b><a href="Approval-based_committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Approval-based committee">Approval-based committees</a></b>
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<ul><li><a href="Proportional_approval_voting" title="Proportional approval voting">Thiele's method</a></li>
<li><a href="Phragmen's_voting_rules" title="Phragmen's voting rules">Phragmen's method</a></li>
<li><a href="Expanding_approvals_rule" title="Expanding approvals rule">Expanding approvals rule</a></li>
<li><a href="Method_of_equal_shares" title="Method of equal shares">Method of equal shares</a></li></ul>
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<p><b><a href="Fractional_social_choice" title="Fractional social choice">Fractional social choice</a></b>
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<ul><li><a href="Direct_representation" title="Direct representation">Direct representation</a>
<ul><li><a href="Interactive_representation" title="Interactive representation">Interactive representation</a></li>
<li><a href="Liquid_democracy" title="Liquid democracy">Liquid democracy</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Fractional_approval_voting" title="Fractional approval voting">Fractional approval voting</a></li>
<li><a href="Maximal_lottery" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximal lottery">Maximal lottery</a></li>
<li><a href="Random_ballot" title="Random ballot">Random ballot</a></li></ul>
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<p><b><a href="Semi-proportional_representation" title="Semi-proportional representation">Semi-proportional representation</a></b>
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<ul><li><a href="Cumulative_voting" title="Cumulative voting">Cumulative</a>
<ul><li><a href="Single_non-transferable_vote" title="Single non-transferable vote">SNTV</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Limited_voting" title="Limited voting">Limited voting</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef; border-top:1px solid;background: var(--background-color-interactive, #efefef); color: var(--color-base, #000);;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Mixed_electoral_system" title="Mixed electoral system">Mixed systems</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><b>By results of combination</b>
<ul><li><a href="Mixed-member_majoritarian_representation" title="Mixed-member majoritarian representation">Mixed-member majoritarian</a></li>
<li><a href="Mixed-member_proportional_representation" title="Mixed-member proportional representation">Mixed-member proportional</a></li></ul>
<hr><b>By mechanism of combination</b>
<ul><li><b>Non-<a href="Compensation_(electoral_systems)" title="Compensation (electoral systems)">compensatory</a></b>
<ul><li><a href="Parallel_voting" title="Parallel voting">Parallel (superposition)</a></li>
<li><a href="Coexistence_(electoral_systems)" title="Coexistence (electoral systems)">Coexistence</a></li>
<li>Conditional</li>
<li><a href="Majority_bonus_system" title="Majority bonus system">Fusion (majority bonus)</a></li></ul></li>
<li><b><a href="Compensation_(electoral_systems)" title="Compensation (electoral systems)">Compensatory</a></b>
<ul><li>Seat linkage system
<ul><li><abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="British_English" title="British English">UK</a>:</abbr> <a href="Additional_member_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Additional member system">'AMS'</a></li>
<li><abbr style="font-size:85%" title=""><a href="New_Zealand_English" title="New Zealand English">NZ</a>:</abbr> <a href="Mixed-member_proportional" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed-member proportional">'MMP'</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Vote_linkage_mixed_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Vote linkage mixed system">Vote linkage system</a>
<ul><li><a href="Scorporo" title="Scorporo">Negative vote transfer</a></li>
<li><a href="Mixed_ballot_transferable_vote" title="Mixed ballot transferable vote">Mixed ballot</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Mixed_electoral_system" title="Mixed electoral system">Supermixed systems</a>
<ul><li><a href="Dual-member_proportional_representation" class="mw-redirect" title="Dual-member proportional representation">Dual-member proportional</a></li>
<li><a href="Rural%E2%80%93urban_proportional_representation" title="Rural–urban proportional representation">Rural–urban proportional</a></li>
<li><a href="Majority_jackpot_system" title="Majority jackpot system">Majority jackpot</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<p><b>By ballot type</b>
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<ul><li><a href="Mixed_single_vote" title="Mixed single vote">Single vote</a>
<ul><li><a href="Double_simultaneous_vote" title="Double simultaneous vote">Double simultaneous vote</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Mixed_electoral_systems" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed electoral systems">Dual-vote</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef; border-top:1px solid;background: var(--background-color-interactive, #efefef); color: var(--color-base, #000);;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Pathological_(mathematics)#Voting" title="Pathological (mathematics)">Paradoxes and pathologies</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><b>Spoiler effects</b>
<ul><li><a href="Spoiler_effect" title="Spoiler effect">Spoiler effect</a></li>
<li><a href="Independence_of_clones" class="mw-redirect" title="Independence of clones">Cloning paradox</a></li>
<li><a href="Condorcet_winner_criterion" title="Condorcet winner criterion">Frustrated majorities paradox</a></li>
<li><a href="Center_squeeze" title="Center squeeze">Center squeeze</a></li></ul>
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<p><b>Pathological response</b>
</p>
<ul><li><a href="Perverse_response" class="mw-redirect" title="Perverse response">Perverse response</a></li>
<li><a href="Best-is-worst_paradox" class="mw-redirect" title="Best-is-worst paradox">Best-is-worst paradox</a></li>
<li><a href="No-show_paradox" class="mw-redirect" title="No-show paradox">No-show paradox</a></li>
<li><a href="Multiple_districts_paradox" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiple districts paradox">Multiple districts paradox</a></li></ul>
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<p><b><a href="Strategic_voting" title="Strategic voting">Strategic voting</a></b>
</p>
<ul><li><a href="Sincere_favorite_criterion" title="Sincere favorite criterion">Lesser evil voting</a></li>
<li><a href="Strategic_voting#Exaggeration" title="Strategic voting">Exaggeration</a></li>
<li><a href="Truncation_(voting)" class="mw-redirect" title="Truncation (voting)">Truncation</a></li>
<li><a href="Turkey-raising" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkey-raising">Turkey-raising</a></li>
<li><a href="Wasted_vote" title="Wasted vote">Wasted vote</a></li></ul>
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<p><b>Paradoxes of <a href="Majority_rule" title="Majority rule">majority rule</a></b>
</p>
<ul><li><a href="Tyranny_of_the_majority" title="Tyranny of the majority">Tyranny of the majority</a></li>
<li><a href="Discursive_dilemma" class="mw-redirect" title="Discursive dilemma">Discursive dilemma</a></li>
<li><a href="Condorcet_paradox" title="Condorcet paradox">Conflicting majorities paradox</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:#efefef; border-top:1px solid;background: var(--background-color-interactive, #efefef); color: var(--color-base, #000);;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="Social_choice_theory" title="Social choice theory">Social and collective choice</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><b><a href="Proof_of_impossibility" title="Proof of impossibility">Impossibility theorems</a></b>
<ul><li><a href="Arrow's_impossibility_theorem" title="Arrow's impossibility theorem">Arrow's theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Condorcet_paradox" title="Condorcet paradox">Majority impossibility</a></li>
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<p>The <b>Huntington–Hill method</b>, sometimes called <b>method of equal proportions</b>, is a <a href="Highest_averages_method" title="Highest averages method">highest averages method</a> for assigning seats in a <a href="Legislature" title="Legislature">legislature</a> to <a href="Political_parties" class="mw-redirect" title="Political parties">political parties</a> or <a href="State_(administrative_division)" class="mw-redirect" title="State (administrative division)">states</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 1941, this method has been used to apportion the 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives following the completion of each decennial <a href="United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">census</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The method minimizes the <a href="Relative_difference" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative difference">relative difference</a> in the number of constituents represented by each legislator. In other words, the method selects the allocation such that no transfer of a seat from one state to another can reduce the percent error in representation for both states.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Apportionment_method">Apportionment method</h2></div>
<p>In this method, as a first step, each of the 50 states is given its one guaranteed seat in the House of Representatives, leaving 385 seats to be assigned. The remaining seats are allocated one at a time, to the state with the highest <i>average district population</i>, to bring its district population down<i>.</i> However, it is not clear if we should calculate the average <i>before</i> or <i>after</i> allocating an additional seat, and the two procedures give different results. Huntington-Hill uses a <a href="Continuity_correction" title="Continuity correction">continuity correction</a> as a compromise, given by taking the <a href="Geometric_mean" title="Geometric mean">geometric mean</a> of both divisors, i.e.:<sup id="cite_ref-:422_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:422-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>where <i>P</i> is the population of the state, and <i>n</i> is the number of seats it currently holds before the possible allocation of the next seat.
</p><p>Consider the reapportionment following the 2010 U.S. census: after every state is given one seat:
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<ol><li>The largest value of <i>A</i><sub>1</sub> corresponds to the largest state, California, which is allocated seat 51.</li>
<li>The 52nd seat goes to Texas, the 2nd largest state, because its <i>A</i><sub>1</sub> priority value is larger than the <i>A<sub>n</sub></i> of any other state.</li>
<li>The 53rd seat goes back to California because its <i>A</i><sub>2</sub> priority value is larger than the <i>A<sub>n</sub></i> of any other state.</li>
<li>The 54th seat goes to New York because its <i>A</i><sub>1</sub> priority value is larger than the <i>A<sub>n</sub></i> of any other state at this point.</li></ol>
<p>This process continues until all remaining seats are assigned. Each time a state is assigned a seat, <i>n</i> is incremented by 1, causing its priority value to be reduced.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Division_by_zero">Division by zero</h2></div>
<p>Unlike the <a href="D'Hondt_method" title="D'Hondt method">D'Hondt</a> and <a href="Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_method" title="Sainte-Laguë method">Sainte-Laguë</a> systems, which allow the allocation of seats by calculating successive quotients right away, the Huntington–Hill system requires each party or state have at least one seat to avoid a <a href="Division_by_zero" title="Division by zero">division by zero</a> error.<sup id="cite_ref-:4222_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4222-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the U.S. House of Representatives, this is ensured by guaranteeing each state at least one seat;<sup id="cite_ref-:4222_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4222-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="Party-list_proportional_representation" title="Party-list proportional representation">party-list representation</a>, small parties would likely be eliminated using some <a href="Electoral_threshold" title="Electoral threshold">electoral threshold</a>, or the first divisor can be modified.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2></div>
<p>Consider an example to distribute 8 seats between three parties A, B, C having respectively 100,000, 80,000 and 30,000 voices.
</p><p>Each eligible party is assigned one seat. With all the initial seats assigned, the remaining five seats are distributed by a priority number calculated as follows. Each eligible party's (Parties A, B, and C) total votes is divided by <span class="texhtml"><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">2 &nbsp;• 1</span></span> ≈ 1.41</span>, then by approximately 2.45, 3.46, 4.47, 5.48, 6.48, 7.48, and 8.49. The 5 highest entries, marked with asterisks, range from <b>70,711</b> down to <b>28,868</b>. For each, the corresponding party gets another seat.
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<th><b>Denominator</b></th>
<th><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">1·2</span></span> ≈<br>1.41</th>
<th><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">2·3</span></span> ≈<br>2.45</th>
<th><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">3·4</span></span> ≈<br>3.46</th>
<th><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">4·5</span></span> ≈<br>4.47</th>
<th><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">5·6</span></span> ≈<br>5.48</th>
<th><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">6·7</span></span> ≈<br>6.48</th>
<th><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">7·8</span></span> ≈<br>7.48</th>
<th><span class="nowrap">√<span style="border-top:1px solid; padding:0 0.1em;">8·9</span></span> ≈<br>8.49</th>
<th>Initial<br>seats</th>
<th>Seats<br>won (*)</th>
<th>Total<br>Seats</th>
<th>Ideal<br>seats
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<td>Party A</td>
<td><b>70,711*</b></td>
<td><b>40,825*</b></td>
<td><b>28,868*</b></td>
<td>22,361</td>
<td>18,257</td>
<td>15,430</td>
<td>13,363</td>
<td>11,785
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<td align="center">1
</td>
<td align="center"><b>3</b>
</td>
<td align="center">4
</td>
<td align="center">3.8
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<td>Party B</td>
<td><b>56,569*</b></td>
<td><b>32,660*</b></td>
<td>23,094</td>
<td>17,889</td>
<td>14,606</td>
<td>12,344</td>
<td>10,690</td>
<td>9,428
</td>
<td align="center">1
</td>
<td align="center"><b>2</b>
</td>
<td align="center">3
</td>
<td align="center">3.0
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<tr>
<td>Party C</td>
<td>21,213</td>
<td>12,247</td>
<td>8,660</td>
<td>6,708</td>
<td>5,477</td>
<td>4,629</td>
<td>4,009</td>
<td>3,536
</td>
<td align="center">1
</td>
<td align="center"><b>0</b>
</td>
<td align="center">1
</td>
<td align="center">1.1
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Knesset_example">Knesset example</h3></div>
<p>The <a href="Knesset" title="Knesset">Knesset</a> (<a href="Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>'s unicameral legislature), are elected by party-list representation with apportionment by the D'Hondt method.<sup id="cite_ref-Bader-Ofer_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bader-Ofer-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Had the Huntington–Hill method, rather than the D'Hondt method, been used to apportion seats following the elections to the <a href="20th_Knesset" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Knesset">20th Knesset</a>, held in 2015, the 120 seats in the 20th Knesset would have been apportioned as follows:
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<th style="border-style: solid solid none none;">D'Hondt<sup id="cite_ref-Bader-Ofer_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bader-Ofer-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<td align="left"><a href="Likud" title="Likud">Likud</a></td>
<td>985,408</td>
<td>33408</td>
<td>32313</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>30</td>
<td>0
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<td>786,313</td>
<td>33468</td>
<td>32101</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>24</td>
<td>0
</td></tr>
<tr>
<td width="2px" bgcolor="#01B2AC">
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<td>446,583</td>
<td>35755</td>
<td>33103</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>13</td>
<td>0
</td></tr>
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<td>371,602</td>
<td>35431</td>
<td>32344</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>11</td>
<td>0
</td></tr>
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<td align="left"><a href="Kulanu" title="Kulanu">Kulanu</a></td>
<td>315,360</td>
<td>37166</td>
<td>33242</td>
<td>9</td>
<td>10</td>
<td>–1
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<td align="left"><a href="The_Jewish_Home" title="The Jewish Home">The Jewish Home</a></td>
<td>283,910</td>
<td>33459</td>
<td>29927</td>
<td>9</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>+1
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<td bgcolor="#000000">
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<td align="left"><a href="Shas" title="Shas">Shas</a></td>
<td>241,613</td>
<td>37282</td>
<td>32287</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>0
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<td bgcolor="#9AC0E2">
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<td align="left"><a href="Yisrael_Beiteinu" title="Yisrael Beiteinu">Yisrael Beiteinu</a></td>
<td>214,906</td>
<td>39236</td>
<td>33161</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>0
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<td align="left"><a href="United_Torah_Judaism" title="United Torah Judaism">United Torah Judaism</a></td>
<td>210,143</td>
<td>38367</td>
<td>32426</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>0
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<td align="left"><a href="Meretz" title="Meretz">Meretz</a></td>
<td>165,529</td>
<td>37013</td>
<td>30221</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>0
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<td style="text-align:left;" colspan="8">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150615082949/http://www.votes20.gov.il/">CEC</a>
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<p>Compared with the actual apportionment, <a href="Kulanu" title="Kulanu">Kulanu</a> would have lost one seat, while <a href="The_Jewish_Home" title="The Jewish Home">The Jewish Home</a> would have gained one seat.
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<ul><li><a href="Edward_Vermilye_Huntington" title="Edward Vermilye Huntington">Edward Vermilye Huntington</a></li>
<li><a href="Highest_averages_method" title="Highest averages method">Highest averages method</a></li>
<li><a href="Joseph_Adna_Hill" title="Joseph Adna Hill">Joseph Adna Hill</a></li></ul>
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