Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician, lawyer, and jurist (born 1841)

Victor D'Hondt

Belgian lawyer and jurist (1841–1901)

Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates in party-list proportional representation elections. The method has…