Outside Styria, does a party have to obtain the 4% or 5% quota even to get a mandate seat (not that that would matter in most cases)? I would think not as the
gultige stimmen pro wahlkrs. upon which the
wahlzahl (electoral district quota) seemed to be based equaled the sum of all the parties' votes in each electoral district. If the votes of all parties are going to count in the denominator for an electoral district mandate, one would think all parties would be elligible for such a mandate regardless of their statewide performance. The ratio of the
gultige to the
wahlzahl equaled the
mandate pro wahlkrs. which would seem to indicate the Hare quota rather than the
Hagenbach-Bischoff quota being used, although I guess that isn't inconsistent with the
Hagenbach-Bischoff method and actually makes more sense if the aim is statewide proportionality after proportionality-enhancing seats are added (higher quota in the first tier = less chance of overhang mandates).
In Styria and outside of Styria if no party not meeting the statewide threshold gets a mandate in any electoral district, does the party composition always (or almost always) match that of
land-wide
D'Hondt among those parties meeting the threshold? I noticed no non-integer
reststimmen on
your link, so perhaps if a party or parties were within a vote or two of gaining/losing a seat from/to a larger party or parties under
D'Hondt (a vote for a party "going for" a smaller number of seats would count more than a vote for a party going for a larger number of seats), the composition of the two or more parties' votes in each district could make a difference. Or are fractional values calculated for the
reststimmen, just not shown on your link? If the end statewide partisan tally in Carinthia will be that of pure
D'Hondt among those parties getting 5% or more of the statewide vote, then I could calculate what would need to happen with the outstanding postal votes in order for any seats to change hands.
