D'Hondt

The D'Hondt method or the Jefferson method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in an electoral system and thus a type of party-list proportional representation. The method described is named in the United States after Thomas Jefferson, who introduced the method for proportional allocation of seats in the United States House of Representatives in 1792, as well as in Europe after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt, who described the methodology in 1878 - thanks Wikipedia. One criticism of the method is that is was specifically designed to prevent pro-independence parties from gaining a majority in effect containing the desire to end the Union. Well nature always finds a way.