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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
Webster, unlike D'Hondt, doesn't guarantee that a majority of voters will get at least half of the seats.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://userpages.umbc.edu/~nmiller/RESEARCH/NRMILLER.PCS2013.pdf|title=ELECTION INVERSIONS
Webster, unlike D'Hondt, doesn't guarantee that a majority of voters will get at least half of the seats.<ref name="Miller pp. 4–25">{{cite journal | last=Miller | first=Nicholas R. | title=Election Inversions under Proportional Representation | journal=Scandinavian Political Studies | publisher=Wiley | volume=38 | issue=1 | date=2014-12-05 | issn=0080-6757 | doi=10.1111/1467-9477.12038 | pages=4–25|url=https://userpages.umbc.edu/~nmiller/RESEARCH/NRMILLER.PCS2013.pdf|access-date=2020-03-24}}</ref>
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If D'Hondt had been used, the final divisor would've been 27.944, with (results calculated by rounding down to the nearest number) Party A getting 18 seats out of 35, a 51.42% majority (503/27.944), B 10 seats (304/27.944), and C 6 seats.
If D'Hondt had been used, the final divisor would've been 27.944, with (results calculated by rounding down to the nearest number) Party A getting 18 seats out of 35, a 51.42% majority (503/27.944), B 10 seats (304/27.944), and C 6 seats.

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[[Category:Party list theory]]
[[Category:Party list theory]]