Comments on: Egypt’s election law favors small parties, fractured parliament

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:44:09 +0000

Mostafa, I have a spreadsheet that allocates seats at the district level via largest remainder. Did you ever find what you need?

By: Mostafa

Mostafa — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:57:03 +0000

Hey – your blog is great and extremely helpful at helping wrap my head around some of Egypt’s electoral procedures (although am not quite there yet)…

Been adding up some of the party/list parliamentary votes from round 1 based on the leaked/leaking results… However, any idea how to easily implement a highest remainder distribution for the seats with excel logic so as to be automated? Would appreciate your thoughts, here is the ilnk: http://goo.gl/e6vIt

Tab 3 “@melhoshy” is probably the most useful for that purpose.. Thanks!

By: David

David — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:43:01 +0000

Thank you for the feedback. Lukas and Bancki, you are correct and I appreciate the clarification. I took out that line on proportionality in a more recent version of this post.

Karim, my understanding comes from Article 15 of Law No. 38 Concerning the People’s Assembly, as well as what others have told me.

By: Bancki

Bancki — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:14:48 +0000

Like Lukas Leuzinger, I’m wondering why you call simple quota largest remainer (SQLR) “slightly less proportional than other systems”. D’Hondt (largest average) favors bigger parties; SQLR is neutral, doesn’t favor bigger nor smaller parties. (See M. L. Balinski, H. Peyton Young, “Fair representation: meeting the ideal of one man, one vote”, 1982) That’s why D’Hondt is more commonly used to apportion seats between parties (and SQLR for the apportionment between districts). You use D’Hondt as yardstick because it’s more commonly used; “proportionality” is however a mathematical criterion by which SQLR beats D’Hondt.

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By: Lukas Leuzinger

Lukas Leuzinger — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:30:08 +0000

Indeed an interesting issue. I’m only wondering what leads you to the conclusion that a system with Hare quota is less proportional than others, especially the D’Hondt system. As far as I can remember most proportional electoral systems still favor bigger parties. A system that favors smaller parties, then, should be more proportional. Or does this depend on the district magnitude?

By: Karim

Karim — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:32:44 +0000

Great post. However when did SCAF announce that they were using the Hare Quota? I thought it had never been addressed in the electoral law.