Victor D'Hondt

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Victor D’Hondt[1] (20 November 1841 - 30 May 1901) was a Belgian lawyer, professor of civil law at Ghent University, and mathematician. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates in party-list proportional representation elections. The method has been adopted by a number of countries, including Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Iceland, and Wales. A modified D'Hondt system is used for elections to the London Assembly.

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  1. ^ D'Hondt's last name is often misspelled as d’Hondt.

Confusion may arrive when reading Dutch articles on D'Hondt, since in Dutch, when using the full name one should write: Victor d'Hondt (with a small d), while the surname all by itself would be D'Hondt (with a capital D). However, in Flemish it is always capitalized, hence: Victor D'Hondt.

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