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Suppose the two-member constituency vote result in Newtown East was as follows:

{| class="wikitable"

|+ Newtown East

|-

! Party !! %Votes

|-

| Party A || 55.0%

|-

| Party D || 20.0%

|-

| Party C || 15.0%

|-

| Party B || 10.0%

|}

We see that Party A has exceeded the quota, entitling it to the first seat, with 0.65 remainder quotas.

Party D is second on 20%, with 0.60 remainder quotas, and has not yet been allocated a seat.

But now consider Party D's table of remainder quotas (and assume that Newtown East is indeed Party D's fourth best national result, with a total of 8 further seats to be allocated to Party D)

{| class="wikitable"

|+ Party D - Seats available: '''8'''

|-

! Constituency !! Remainder Quota

|-

| Blankshire West || 0.91

|-

| Oldtown North || 0.83

|-

| Bracketshire South || 0.71

|-

| Newtown East || 0.60

|-

| ... || ...

|-

| ... || ...

|}

If Party D is the smallest national party awarded seats, and the partywise smallest first allocation is adopted, and Party A's 0.65 remainder quota is also somewhere amongst ''its'' best remainders entitled to seats, then Party D will be awarded the seat despite having a slightly ''smaller'' remainder quota than Party A in Newtown East.