Number of Seats Won Using the D'Hondt Method

The D'Hondt method is one of the methods used to calculate the number of seats allocated to each political party in proportional representation elections.Under this method, the number of votes received by each political party is successively divided by integers starting from 1, and seats are allocated in descending order of the resulting quotients. In Japan, this method was adopted starting with the House of Councillors election in Showa 58 (1983). The method is named after the Belgian mathematician Victor D’Hondt.