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Some say the Droop quota may go too far in that regard, saying it is the most-biased possible quota that can still be considered to be proportional. [1] Today the Droop quota is used in almost all STV elections, including those in the Republic of Ireland, Malta, Australia, Northern Ireland, and India. [13]
Therefore, the quota rule states that the only two allocations allowed for party A are 1 or 2 seats on the council. If there is a second party, B , that has 137 members, then the quota rule states that party B gets 137 300 ⋅ 5 ≈ 2.3 {\displaystyle {\frac {137}{300}}\cdot 5\approx 2.3} , rounded up and down equals either 2 or 3 seats.
(For the states, the quota for election is halved in a double dissolution election.) However, as STV is a ranked voting system , candidates who receive less than the quota for election in primary votes can still end up being elected if they amass sufficient preferences to reach the Droop quota.
A somewhat counterintuitive result of this is that a larger quota will always be more favorable to smaller parties. [6] A party hoping to win multiple seats sees fewer votes captured by a single popular candidate when the quota is small. The two most common quotas are the Hare quota and the Droop quota. The use of a particular quota with one of ...
The quota is typically set based on the number of valid votes cast, and even if the number of votes in play decreases through the vote count process, the quota remains as set through the process. Meek's counting method recomputes the quota on each iteration of the count, as described below.
The quota acts in some ways as an electoral threshold and the Droop quota in a district is a significantly higher proportion of district votes than the usual electoral threshold in use for most party-list PR systems, but the Droop quota in a district covering just part of a jurisdiction may be set at as few votes as a smaller proportion of the ...
By contrast, the Droop quota is more biased towards large parties than any other admissible quota. [24] The Droop quota sometimes allows a party representing less than half of the voters to take a majority of seats in a constituency. [24] [2] The Droop quota is today the most popular quota for STV elections. [citation needed]
Thus the quota is used both to determine who is elected and to determine the number of surplus votes when a person is elected with quota. When the Droop quota is used, often about a quota of votes are not used to elect anyone (a much lower proportion that under the first-past-the-post voting system) so the quota is a cue to the number of votes ...