Talk:Hagenbach-Bischoff quota

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[edit] Counting STV

Could I propose moving the stuff about use as a quota for STV to the Counting Single Transferable Votes page since it is more relevent there (and is good stuff)?

Thanks for the encouragement. I don't think that would be wise. The STV section is large on its own and I've also added equivalent sections to the articles on Droop quota and Hare quota. If this stuff was merged into Counting Single Transferable Votes that page would be overwhelmed. I think it's better for Counting Single Transferable Votes to have good summaries on each of the three quotas, with the exhaustive detail given on the quota articles themselves. When I get round to it I'll add a summary on the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota to Counting Single Transferable Votes.

Iota 17:09, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] v. Droop

Unless I'm being exceptionally dim, there is a problem with the scenario being painted in the relative merits of this quoto over Droop, although it eliminates a fairly uncommon potential problem of party voting, doesn't it lead the way to frequent ties.

After all, the order at which candidates in STV arrive at the quota isn't supposed to be expressive; thus althouhg all seats may be filled it would still be possible for the remaining candidate(s) to reach the quota, given sufficient transfers? Unless you had virtually no cross party voting, this would be happening all the time, Shirley.--Red Deathy 12:01, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quotas

Would this formula: (Votes+1)/(Seats+1)=Quota solve the problems with the H-B quota? Halfelven 15:53, 24 March 2007 (UTC)