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Apportionment methods are used to round the vote proportions of parties in a proportional representation system to integer numbers of seats in the parliament. Seat biases quantify by how much on average a particular apportionment method favors larger (or smaller) parties. In this paper, we prove a previous conjecture on asymptotic seat biases of stationary divisor methods and the quota method of greatest remainders, as the size of the parliament tends to infinity.
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Drton, M., Schwingenschlögl, U. Asymptotic seat bias formulas. Metrika 62, 23–31 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001840400352
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001840400352