Talk:2021 Salvadoran legislative election

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Number 57 in topic Decimals in final results

Lacks Information on the Method of Voting

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Something should be said about El Salvador's domestic and overseas voting systems DrWJK (talk) 19:31, 21 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

What more is there to say about it?--Aréat (talk) 19:44, 21 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Decimals in final results

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I was checking the final results here and apparently the number of votes for each party involve decimals. Does anyone know why or how to handle this? I was thinking about a classic approximation according to the first decimal but since it's the first time I see something like this maybe there are alternatives. --Fm3dici97 (talk) 08:24, 23 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, it's due to the electoral system which can allow fraction of votes. It's the same as with 2017 Japanese general election, we round it up without decimals.--Aréat (talk) 11:06, 23 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
I have updated the totals, rounded to the nearest vote. Where are the seat figures from though? Number 57 11:22, 23 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
A complete count of the seats for each department can be found here. About that, having a distinction between the seats won by single parties and the ones won by coalitions is useful for the summary table, but in the Parliament composition there should be no such distinction since every MP belongs to just one party. From that point of view is everything correct?--Fm3dici97 (talk) 14:15, 23 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
Annoyingly, the results in that source are slightly different to the ones here. Although the total votes is the same, the split between the various alliances is different. I will assume those in the pdf are right for now, as they also contain the seat totals. Number 57 15:47, 23 March 2021 (UTC)Reply