Editing Droop quota (section)

==Comparison with Hare==

The Hare quota gives more proportional outcomes on average because it is [[seat bias|statistically unbiased]].<ref name="pukelsheim-2017-bias">{{Citation |last=Pukelsheim |first=Friedrich |title=Favoring Some at the Expense of Others: Seat Biases |date=2017 |work=Proportional Representation: Apportionment Methods and Their Applications |pages=127–147 |editor-last=Pukelsheim |editor-first=Friedrich |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64707-4_7 |access-date=2024-05-10 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-64707-4_7 |isbn=978-3-319-64707-4|url-access=subscription }}</ref> By contrast, the Droop quota is more [[Seat bias|biased towards large parties]] than any other [[Electoral quota|admissible quota]].<ref name="pukelsheim-2017-bias" /> As a result, the Droop quota is the quota most likely to produce [[minority rule]] by a [[Plurality (voting)|plurality party]], where a party representing less than half of the voters may take majority of seats in a constituency.<ref name="pukelsheim-2017-bias" /> However, the Droop quota has the advantage that any party receiving more than half the votes will receive at least half of all seats.