- Victor D'Hondt
Victor D’Hondt [D'Hondt's last name is often misspelled as "d’Hondt".] (20 November 1841 - 30 May 1901) was a Belgian
lawyer ,professor of civil law atGhent University , andmathematician . He devised a procedure, theD'Hondt method , which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates inparty-list proportional representation elections. The method has been adopted by a number of countries, includingArgentina ,Austria ,Belgium ,Bulgaria ,Chile ,Croatia ,Czech Republic ,Denmark ,Finland ,Israel ,Japan ,the Netherlands ,Northern Ireland ,Paraguay ,Poland ,Portugal ,Republic of Ireland ,Scotland ,Slovenia ,Spain ,Switzerland ,Turkey ,Iceland , andWales . A modified D'Hondt system is used for elections to the London Assembly.Notes
Confusion may arrive when reading Dutch articles on D'Hondt, since in Dutch, when using the full name one should write: Victor d'Hondt (with a small d), while the surname all by itself would be D'Hondt (with a capital D). However, in Flemish it is always capitalized, hence: Victor D'Hondt.
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