'20 QUOTA IN PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, II., 



R.S. TAS. 



Hagenbach-Bischoff rule or systeme Genevois (used in 

 the Canton of Geneva and in the town of Basel) (the Droop 

 quota vl{m + 1) + 1 is used as divisor; if any seats 

 remain unallotted, v/(m + 2) + 1 is used as divisor; if 

 any still remain v/(m + 3) + 1 is the divisor; and so on). 

 Macquart, pp. 551-4. Lachapefle, pp. 117-9. 



System of the electoral quota (quotient electoral), unal- 

 lotted seats going to the largest parties. (The quota is the 

 number of votes in the district divided by the number 

 of seats). Groussier, p. 28 et sqq. This system was used 

 in the Neuchatel electoral law of 1894, article 64 

 (Benoist, p. 126.) 



System of the electoral quota (quotient electoral), unal- 

 lotted seats going to the parties with largest remainders. 

 Groussier, p. 28 et sqq. Macquart, 546-9. Sainte-Lague, 

 pp. 537-8 (see § 60 above). Lachapelle, pp. 103-107. 

 Moch, §§ 5-13. 



System of the electoral quota (quotient electoral), unal- 

 lotted seats going to the parties for which the ratio of the 

 remainder to the strength of the party is largest (methode 

 des phis fortes fractions). Sainte-Lague, p. 535 (see § 58 

 above). 



System of M. Maurice Equer (in which seats are par- 

 titioned so that the difference between the greatest and 

 least of the quantities xjp — see § 55 — may be as small as 

 possible). Equer. Groussier, p. 33 et sqq. Sainte-Lague, 

 p. 535 (see § 59 above). 



Methode des nioindres carres (see § 56 above). Sainte- 

 Lague, p. 531 et sqq. 



Van de Walle's syste^n (system of the electoral quota ; 

 remainders added together in a group of districts and 

 remaining seats allotted by applying D'Hondt rule to the 

 totals of the remainders). Lachapelle, pp. 221-230. Van 

 de Walle, pp. 1-30. Goblet d'Alviella, pp. 13-15. Van 

 den Heuvel. 



General discussions of the problem will be found in — 



Groussier, pp. 22-51. 

 Sainte-Lague, pp. 529-542. 

 Macquart, pp. 545-554. 



The works referred to above by authors' names are as 

 follows : — 



Benoist, Charles (Depute). Rapport fait au nom de la 

 commission du suffrage universel chargee d' examiner 

 diverses propositions de loi tendant a. etahlir la repi'eseti- 

 tation jM'oportio7inelle. Chambre des Deputes, Annexe au 

 proces-verbal de la seance du 7 Avril, 1905. (Chamber 

 of Deputies, No. 2376 of 1905.) 



