[Footnote 2: The order in which the names appear is arranged by the party presenting the lists.]
[Footnote 3: A further election (the sixth) took place in 1910.]
[Footnote 4: See La Representation Proportionnelle intégrale, 1910.
Felix Goblet d'Alviella (fils).]
[Footnote 5: Rapport de la Commission du Suffrage Universel, 1905, p. 45.]
[Footnote 6: Professor Hagenbach-Bischoff, of Bâle, formulated a different rule which is finding favour in Swiss cantons. The quota which will ensure the apportionment of all the seats among the lists without remainder is ascertained by trial. In practice the same results are obtained as with the d'Hondt rule. Full directions for applying the rule are contained in Clause XIII. of the law adopted for the canton of Bale Town.—Appendix IX.]
[Footnote 7: For recent French criticism, see page 202.]
[Footnote 8: At Lille, December 1906.]
[Footnote 9: The new French Bill (see Appendix X.) provides for the presentation of combined lists (apparentement).]
[Footnote 10: Cf. La Repésentation Proportionelle en France et en Belgique, M. Georges Lachapelle (1911) and the new report of the Commission du Suffrage Universel (No. 826, Chambre des Députés, 1911). M. Lachapelle recommends a new proposal, le système du nombre unique. The electoral quotient for all constituencies would be fixed by law at, say, 15,000 votes. The number of deputies chosen at each election would be allowed to vary. Each list in each constituency would receive as many seats as its total contained the quotient. The constituencies would be grouped into divisions. The votes remaining over after the allotment of seats in each constituency would be added together, and further seats would then be allotted to the respective lists.]