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If you're looking for a flexible proportional formula for allocating parliamentary seats, a basic proportional method can be adapted for any total number of seats. The formula distributes seats among various parties based on the votes they received, and can be adjusted for any number of available seats in the parliament. Here's how to apply it:
Let be the total number of votes.
Let be the number of votes received by each party .
Let be the total number of seats in the parliament.
For each party, calculate the percentage of the total votes it received:
Multiply this percentage by the total number of seats to get the approximate number of seats for each party:
Here, might not be a whole number.
Allocate seats based on these approximate numbers. If the total number of allocated seats does not add up to , adjust by adding or removing seats from parties with the closest values to the next whole number.