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apportionment of seats

process of allocating the political power of a set of constituent voters among their representatives in a deliberative body
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Summary

apportionment of seats is a distribution[1]. It draws 652 Wikipedia views per month (distribution category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: political activity[3], assignment[4], method[5]
  • Has cause: census[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Apportionment (politics)[7]
  • Facet of: parliamentarism[8], public election[9], electoral system[10]
  • Topic has template: Template:Seats diagram[11]
  • Has effect: redistribution[12]
  • Has list: list of legislatures by number of members[13]

Why It Matters

apportionment of seats has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ckb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fy', 'hy', 'ja', 'ko', 'ms', 'nl', 'zh']
    Sitelink count → 12
    Harper's tag → apportionment-election-law
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: apportionment-election-law, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289909442|apportionment election law (#289909442)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0395245-prerozdelovani-mandatu
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0395245-prerozdelovani-mandatu, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has effect → redistribution
    Topic has template → Template:Seats diagram
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → political activity, assignment, method
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007294016405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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