Cork City gets a taste for the d’Hondt system
Named after its inventor, 19th century Belgian lawyer and mathematician Victor d’Hondt, who was a professor of law at Ghent University in the 1870s, it was originally devised to ensure an equitable distribution of parliamentary seats among Catholics and Liberals, and between the different language communities in Belgium.
Today, it used by 17 EU member states for their elections (by regional or national lists) to the European Parliament.
