voting

A pure Python module for election quotas, voting measures, and apportionment methods.

Installation

The voting package works in Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7. It is available on pypi and can be installed using pip.

pip install voting

Package structure

• voting
  • apportionment
    • adams
    • dhondt
    • hagenbach_bischoff
    • hamilton
    • huntington_hill
    • jefferson
    • sainte_lague
    • vinton
    • webster
  • diversity
    • berger_parker
    • general
    • gini_simpson
    • golosov
    • inverse_simpson
    • laakso_taagepera
    • renyi
    • shannon
    • simpson
  • proportion
    • adjusted_loosemore_hanby
    • dhondt
    • gallagher
    • grofman
    • least_square
    • lijphart
    • loosemore_hanby
    • rae
    • regression
    • rose
    • sainte_lague
  • quota
    • droop
    • hagenbach_bischoff
    • hare
    • imperiali

Examples

Apportioning seats using the Huntington-Hill method.

from voting import apportionment


votes = [2560, 3315, 995, 5012]
seats = 20
assignments = apportionment.huntington_hill(votes, seats)

Calculating the effective number of parties using Golosov's measure.

from voting import diversity


parties = [750, 150, 50, 50]
effective_parties = diversity.golosov(parties)

Measuring the disproportionality of democratic representation using the Sainte-Lague measure.

from voting import proportion


votes = [750, 150, 50, 50]
seats = [80, 16, 2, 2]
disproportionality = proportion.sainte_lague(votes, seats)

Determining the Droop quota

from voting import quota


votes = 1000
seats = 20
election_quota = quota.droop(votes, seats)