Victor D'Hondt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Victor D'Hondt

jurist, lawyer, mathematician, salesman

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1841

Place of Birth: Ghent, Belgium

Date of Death: 30-May-1901

Profession: lawyer, politician, mathematician, jurist, university teacher

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt (20 November 1841 – 30 May 1902) was a Belgian lawyer, salesman, jurist of civil law at Ghent University, and mathematician.
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 been adopted by a number of countries, including Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Israel, Japan, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Iceland, Uruguay and Wales.
A modified D'Hondt system is used for elections to the London Assembly and the Scottish Parliament.