6.21 The “material” equality of voters - example

Let’s assume that the First-Past-the-Post is employed in elections in the municipality (denoted with A):

• The population of the municipality \(A\) = 10,000 = \(TV\);

• The total number of seats to be apportioned = 10 = \(TS\).

The so-called ‘ideal’ district population (\(\tilde {v_i}\)) is then 1000.

 …