Talk:Electoral system of New Zealand

message: To do:
* Electorate boundary determination
* General expansion
* more sources (e.g. Boston et al., New Zealand Under MMP)
* description of Sainte-Lague
* when elections occur
* recalculate Gallagher Index on final result. Provisional figures at User:Fanx/NZ election#Gallagher Index, 2008
please add to list
--GeLuxe 07:12, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: It is hard to say that the tradition of elections being in November or December has fallen out of tradition, since all the elections that haven't, other than 1996, have been snap elections or the few elections after them where the latest possible date falls a few months short. Silenceisfoo 12:28, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nov/Dec tradition 

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message: Saint-Lague is the most unbiased of the divisor allocation rules (which include Sainte-Lague, d’Hondt, & the U.S. apportionment-rule called Huntington-Hill or “equal-proportions).
Sainte-Lague is very slightly biased in favor of large parties. Huntington-Hill is about twice as biased, in favorable of small parties (states, actually, because it’s used for apportionment).
d’Hondt is much more strongly biased in favor of large parties. 
There’s an entirely unbiased allocation-rule. It was proposed on 2006,under the name “Bias-Free”. 
Where Sainte-Lague’sround-off point, R, between the consecutive seats-numbers a & b is:
(a+b)/2,
For Bias/Free, to calculator R:
Divide b^b by a^a. Then divide the result by e.
…where e is the base of the natural logarithms, = about 2.718…
That’s called the “identric mean” of a & b.
2600:6C55:7900:2B8:C9A3:8085:9BD7:6B7A (talk) 23:26, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The text currently reads:   That appears to be consistent with what you say. Or should that be reworded? Schwede66 23:50, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn’t say that it favors small parties, because a lot of people believe that it actually does. I’d instead say that Sainte-Lague is unbiased for practical purposes, though it very slightly favors large parties.  …& that d’Hondt very strongly favors large parties. 2600:6C55:7900:2B8:B1D2:139A:4D0D:3287 (talk) 04:16, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sainte-Lague doesn’t favor small parties.