Huntington-Hill method

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The Huntington-Hill method of apportionment assigns seats by finding a modified divisor D such that each constinuency's quotient (population divided by D), when rounded by geometric mean of the lower and upper quota, yields the correct number of seats.

The United States House of Representatives uses this method of apportionment to assign representative seats to each state.

Although the U.S. House of Representatives actually uses the Equal Porportionment Method to apportion the states' representatives based on their population, if, in 1790, the U.S. House of Representatives had been apportioned using the Huntington-Hill method with a divisor of 34,800, the apportionment would have been calculated as:

State Population Quotas Lower Upper G. Mean Rnd. Dir. Seats
Virginia 630,560 18.12 18 19 18.49 down 18
Massachusetts 475,327 13.66 13 14 13.49 up 14
Pennsylvania 432,879 12.44 12 13 12.49 down 12
North Carolina 353,523 10.16 10 11 10.49 down 10
New York 331,589 9.53 9 10 9.49 up 10
Maryland 278,514 8.00 8 9 8.49 down 8
Connecticut 236,841 6.81 6 7 6.48 up 7
South Carolina 206,236 5.93 5 6 5.48 up 6
New Jersey 179,570 5.16 5 6 5.48 down 5
New Hampshire 141,822 4.08 4 5 4.47 down 4
Vermont 85,533 2.46 2 3 2.45 up 3
Georgia 70,835 2.04 2 3 2.45 down 2
Kentucky 68,705 1.97 1 2 1.41 up 2
Rhode Island 68,446 1.97 1 2 1.41 up 2
Delaware 55,540 1.60 1 2 1.41 up 2
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