Jefferson's Method: a Modified Divisor, Always Rounded Down
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In this lesson
You apportion the 40 seats with Jefferson's method using a modified divisor, check that exactly 40 seats are handed out and find the divisor at which the next seat would go to another state.
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Lessons in this course
- Standard Divisor & Quotas: How Many Seats Does Each State Deserve? Locked
- Hamilton's Method: Largest Remainders with RANK.EQ Locked
- Jefferson's Method: a Modified Divisor, Always Rounded Down Locked
- Webster's Method: Modified Divisor with Normal Rounding Locked
- Huntington–Hill: Rounding at the Geometric Mean & Priority Values Locked
- Comparing the Methods: Who Gains, Who Loses (with a Chart) Locked
- Paradoxes: the Alabama Paradox and the Population Paradox Locked
- Party-List Seats: D'Hondt & Sainte-Laguë with a Quotient Table Locked