Weighted result
There can be weighted results in elections if voters e.g. B. due to different sized municipal councils give different numbers of votes , but the results should be comparable with each other.
On the approximation of weighting the total number of valid will ballot with the number of votes for a party multiplied and the product thereof with the total number of valid ballots divided .
The result allows a comparison of different election results as if each voter had only cast one vote.
There are weighted results in Germany, especially in local elections in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b What is a weighted result? www.wahlen.rlp.de, accessed on October 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Weighted result. www.statistik-hessen.de, accessed on October 31, 2015 .