Apportionment Calculator

Apportionment Calculator hands out a fixed number of seats among states in proportion to their populations — the problem the U.S. House has faced since 1790 — and shows you exactly how each method gets there. SEVEN METHODS • Hamilton's method • Jefferson's method • Lowndes' method • Webster's method • Adams' method • The Huntington-Hill method • The method of equal proportions HOW IT WORKS Type in the seats and each state's population, or import a table from a CSV or Excel file. Calculate, and you get the standard divisor, each state's quota, the initial seats and the final apportionment, laid out in a table you can read across. COMPARE Put all seven methods side by side and see where they disagree — the seats that move from one state to another depending on which method is used. LEARN Every calculation comes with the steps that produced it: the divisor, the quotas, the rounding rule,…