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Victor d'Hondt


(1841-1901) Belgian lawyer and enthusiast for proportional representation. His formula for assigning seats to parties in multiseat districts was, unknown to him, the same as that proposed a century earlier by Jefferson to assign seats to states in the US Congress after each decennial census (see apportionment). The d'Hondt (Jefferson) system is biased in favour of large parties. Unsurprisingly, it is the most popular of the apportionment rules used nowadays by parties to assign each other seats in assemblies with proportional representation.

 
 
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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, Finland, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and Wales.

His living relatives are a long line of dentists, including Dennis and Eric D'Hondt who reside in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

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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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