osuusmenetelmän
osuusmenetelmän, also known as the "proportional method," is a system used in Finnish local government elections to allocate seats to political parties. It is a form of proportional representation designed to ensure that the distribution of seats in a municipal council reflects the proportion of votes each party receives. The primary goal of the osuusmenetelmän is to achieve a fair and representative outcome where smaller parties also have a chance to gain seats if they can garner sufficient support within a specific electoral district.
The method involves several steps, beginning with the calculation of the d'Hondt divisor, which is the total