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The Sainte-Laguë method ((:sɛ̃.tə.la.ɡy)) is a highest quotient method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation used in many voting systems. It is named after the French mathematician André Sainte-Laguë. The Sainte-Laguë method is quite similar to the D'Hondt method, but uses different divisors. In most cases the largest remainder method delivers almost identical results. The D'Hondt method gives similar results too, but favors larger parties compared to the Sainte-Laguë method.〔. See in particular the section "Sainte-Lague", (pp. 174–175 ).〕 Often there is an electoral threshold, that is a minimum percentage of votes required to be allocated seats. The Sainte-Laguë method is used in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Kosovo, Latvia, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. In Germany it is used on the federal level for the Bundestag, and on the state level for the legislatures of Baden-Württemberg, Bremen, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, and Schleswig-Holstein). The Sainte-Laguë method was used in Bolivia in 1993, in Poland in 2001, and in the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006. A variant of this method, the modified Sainte-Laguë method, was used to allocate the proportional representation (PR) seats in the Constituent Assembly poll of Nepal in 2008. The method has been proposed by the Green Party in Ireland as a reform for use in Dáil Éireann elections,〔( Ireland's Green Party website; )〕 and by the United Kingdom Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in 2011 as the method for calculating the distribution of seats in elections to the country's upper house of parliament. ==Description of the method== After all the votes have been tallied, successive quotients are calculated for each party. The formula for the quotient is〔 :: where: * ''V'' is the total number of votes that party received, and * ''s'' is the number of seats that party has been allocated so far, initially 0 for all parties. Whichever party has the highest quotient gets the next seat allocated, and their quotient is recalculated given their new seat total. The process is repeated until all seats have been allocated. The Sainte-Laguë method does not ensure that a party receiving more than half the votes will win at least half the seats; nor does its modified form.〔.〕 For example, with seven seats available and the votes split 53,000, 24,000 and 23,000, the allocation would be three, two and two seats respectively. The d'Hondt method differs by the formula to calculate the quotients .〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sainte-Laguë method」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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