Webster's Method: Modified Divisor with Normal Rounding
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You round the standard quotas normally, see that the seats do not add up, fix it with a modified divisor and compare Webster's seats with Hamilton's.
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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