:24 QUOTA IN PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION, II., 



R.S. TAS. 



I assume that these numbers represent the relative 

 strengths of the parties. With a party-list system, as 

 each elector would have several votes, the numbers would 

 be multiples of these (subject to a slight disarrangement 

 of the votes in Wilmot) ; but these numbers will serve foi 

 4:he illustration. 



We first divide the total number of votes polled, 68,767, 

 by the number of members to be elected, 30; the result is 

 the quota, 2292. 



The total of the votes for each party is then divided 

 by 2292; the results are, Liberal, 15-78; Labour, 13-79; 

 Independent, 0'43. The members to be allotted to the 

 parties are therefore Liberal, 16; Labour, 14; Independ- 

 •ent, (which, it may be noticed, was the result given by 

 the single transferable vote). 



Next divide the totals of the votes for the parties in the 

 various districts by the quota. The results are: — 



'General, Election^ Tasmania, 23rd January, 1913. — Share 

 of Representation in each District according to the 

 Method of the Uniform Quota. 



Allotting seats first to whole quotas, the Liberals would 

 get two seats in Bass, Darwdn and Wilmot, and three in 

 Denison and Franklin, total 12 ; and the remaining four 

 seats would go to the districts in which there are the great- 

 est remainders, namely Bass, Darwin, Franklin, and Wil- 

 mot. Similarly the Labour Party would get, from 

 whole quotas, three seats in Bass and Denison, two in 

 Darwin and Franklin, and one in Wilmot, total 11 ; and 

 the remaining three seats would go to Darwin, Franklin, 

 and Wilmot. The result of the election would therefore 

 be : - - 



