India's seat allocation comes from a rule the Delimitation Commission wrote down in
1963: divide by the average, round to the nearest whole number, and if the total
falls short, give the spare seat to the largest fraction below one half. Change the
inputs below and watch what it does. Every figure is computed in your browser from
published census counts.
Set the inputs
543
Seats, state by state
Unit
Population
Exact share
Seats
Actual
Change
People per MP
Grow the House and watch for drops
Each line is one unit. Under a largest-remainder rule such as India's, a line can
go down as the House grows. That is the Alabama paradox, and it is why the
United States abandoned this method in 1900. Divisor methods never do it.
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