Talk:2016 Cypriot legislative election

Electoral System

While the article explains the electoral system to some degree, it does not explain how “Any remaining seats are allocated to lists that won at least one seat or parties that received at least 3.6% of the vote.” According to the electoral law () the seats are filled using the nationwide results (as if all of Cyprus were a “United Constituency”). The number of votes in each district that a party received minus the seats it was awarded using the hare quota times the quota (its “unused votes) are used as the party’s votes in this allocation. So, for example, if in a district with 5 seats there were 30 votes and a party gained 20 votes it would get 3 seats from the hare quota (“first allocation”) and it would have 2 “unused votes” from this district because 20-3*6=2. These “unused votes” are added from each district to be used as a party’s “votes” in the “second allocation,” where the unallocated seats are allocated using the hare quota (with unallocated seats used as the “total seats” in determining the quota), and all remaining seats are allocated in the same way using the D’Hondt method (“third allocation”). These seats for each party are allocated to each constituency proportionally, syarting with the party that received the most votes, until they are all exhausted. Of course, this is a very complicated electoral system and I think we can’t possibly describe it in its entirety in this page (although we could describe it in the page Elections in Cyprus). I was wandering how, and whether, we should explain this in this article. KnolGua (talk) 22:50, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

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