Suggested Websites

www.census.gov/population/apportionment/ The Census Bureau’s apportionment website provides a summary of the history of apportionment of seats in the United States House of Representatives. It has the data for the 2010 apportionment and a video, entitled The Amazing Apportionment Machine, that shows how it implements the Hill-Huntington method (which it calls the “method of equal proportions”). You will be interested to see that the “Amazing Apportionment Machine” works much as a d’Hondt or Sainte-Laguë table does, by lining the states up in priority order.

nia977.wix.com/drbcap Visit Charles Biles’s website to read about apportionment as it was debated in the 18th and 19th centuries. Views of what constitutes fair apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives have changed over the years.

www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/bundestag/elections/arithmetic/ The German parliament (the Bundestag) has provided a brief but very informative English language description of its apportionment system at this website.

penguincompaniontoeu.com/additional_entries/dhondt-system/ The d’Hondt system, as it is used by several member states of the European Union to elect members of the European Parliament, is described at this website.