Victor D'Hondt
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Victor D’Hondt[1] (20 November 1841 - 30 May 1901) was a Belgian lawyer, professor of civil law at Ghent University, and mathematician. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates in party-list proportional representation elections. The method has been adopted by a number of countries, including Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and Wales.
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- ^ D'Hondt's last name is often misspelled as d’Hondt.
Confusion may arrive when reading Dutch articles on D'Hondt, since in Dutch, when using the full name one should write: Victor d'Hondt (with a small d), while the surname all by itself would be D'Hondt (with a capital D). However, in Flemish it is always capitalized, hence: Victor D'Hondt.
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