Quota method

Largest remainder method - method of allocating seats proportionally for representative assemblies with party list voting systems. Article “Quota method” in English Wikipedia has 30.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.6 points.

This article has the best quality in Dutch Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Quota method” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Quota method”, its content was written by 82 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 358 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 662 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1648 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19034 in November 2004
• Global: #1105 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #204108 in June 2024
• Global: #71919 in May 2019

There are 20 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Dutch (nl) Grootste-overschottenmethode		32.0004
2	English (en) Quota method		30.3344
3	Chinese (zh) 最大餘額法		27.7793
4	Thai (th) วิธีเหลือเศษสูงสุด		27.598
5	Greek (el) Μέθοδος των μεγαλύτερων υπολοίπων		26.0123
6	German (de) Hare/Niemeyer-Verfahren		23.0037
7	Finnish (fi) Vertausluku		19.6997
8	Arabic (ar) طريقة المتبقي الأكبر		19.2749
9	Polish (pl) Metoda Hare’a-Niemeyera		18.8545
10	Bulgarian (bg) Метод на най-големия остатък		18.2607

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Quota method" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Hare/Niemeyer-Verfahren		521 484
2	English (en) Quota method		421 338
3	Polish (pl) Metoda Hare’a-Niemeyera		209 468
4	Spanish (es) Método del resto mayor		202 144
5	Chinese (zh) 最大餘額法		123 556
6	Italian (it) Metodo del quoziente e dei più alti resti		108 929
7	Finnish (fi) Vertausluku		77 585
8	Japanese (ja) 最大剰余方式		65 206
9	Bulgarian (bg) Метод на най-големия остатък		45 885
10	Czech (cs) Volební kvóta		23 418

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Quota method" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Quota method		3 745
2	German (de) Hare/Niemeyer-Verfahren		966
3	Polish (pl) Metoda Hare’a-Niemeyera		664
4	Chinese (zh) 最大餘額法		343
5	Italian (it) Metodo del quoziente e dei più alti resti		290
6	Spanish (es) Método del resto mayor		270
7	Japanese (ja) 最大剰余方式		233
8	Czech (cs) Volební kvóta		57
9	Portuguese (pt) Método do resto maior		50
10	Dutch (nl) Grootste-overschottenmethode		49

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Quota method" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hare/Niemeyer-Verfahren		105
2	English (en) Quota method		82
3	Chinese (zh) 最大餘額法		29
4	Italian (it) Metodo del quoziente e dei più alti resti		25
5	Polish (pl) Metoda Hare’a-Niemeyera		20
6	Spanish (es) Método del resto mayor		15
7	Portuguese (pt) Método do resto maior		13
8	Bulgarian (bg) Метод на най-големия остатък		12
9	Finnish (fi) Vertausluku		12
10	Japanese (ja) 最大剰余方式		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Quota method" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Quota method		1
2	Arabic (ar) طريقة المتبقي الأكبر		0
3	Bulgarian (bg) Метод на най-големия остатък		0
4	Catalan (ca) Mètode de Hamilton		0
5	Czech (cs) Volební kvóta		0
6	Danish (da) Største brøks metode		0
7	German (de) Hare/Niemeyer-Verfahren		0
8	Greek (el) Μέθοδος των μεγαλύτερων υπολοίπων		0
9	Spanish (es) Método del resto mayor		0
10	Estonian (et) Suurimate ülejääkide meetod		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Quota method" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Quota method		662
2	German (de) Hare/Niemeyer-Verfahren		146
3	Spanish (es) Método del resto mayor		120
4	Chinese (zh) 最大餘額法		105
5	Danish (da) Største brøks metode		82
6	Dutch (nl) Grootste-overschottenmethode		72
7	Japanese (ja) 最大剰余方式		69
8	Italian (it) Metodo del quoziente e dei più alti resti		57
9	Arabic (ar) طريقة المتبقي الأكبر		55
10	Catalan (ca) Mètode de Hamilton		53

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic طريقة المتبقي الأكبر
bg	Bulgarian Метод на най-големия остатък
ca	Catalan Mètode de Hamilton
cs	Czech Volební kvóta
da	Danish Største brøks metode
de	German Hare/Niemeyer-Verfahren
el	Greek Μέθοδος των μεγαλύτερων υπολοίπων
en	English Quota method
es	Spanish Método del resto mayor
et	Estonian Suurimate ülejääkide meetod
fi	Finnish Vertausluku
it	Italian Metodo del quoziente e dei più alti resti
ja	Japanese 最大剰余方式
nl	Dutch Grootste-overschottenmethode
no	Norwegian Største brøks metode
pl	Polish Metoda Hare’a-Niemeyera
pt	Portuguese Método do resto maior
th	Thai วิธีเหลือเศษสูงสุด
tr	Turkish En büyük artık yöntemi
zh	Chinese 最大餘額法

Best Rank

English: #204108 06.2024

Global: #71919 05.2019

Best Rank

English: #19034 11.2004

Global: #1105 08.2002

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