Victor D'Hondt

Belgian jurist (1841-1901)

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It is catalogued under topics including 1841 births, 1901 deaths and 19th-century Belgian lawyers.

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Born: ( 1841-11-20 ) 20 November 1841, Ghent , Belgium
Died: 30 May 1901 (1901-05-30) (aged 59), Ghent, Belgium
Occupations: Businessman, jurist, lawyer, mathematician
Known for: Electoral voting system

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Instance of: human
Given name: Victor
Gender: male
Citizenship: Belgium
Place of birth: Ghent
Place of death: Ghent
Occupation: political activist
Employer: Ghent University
Image: Victor D'Hondt (1841-1901) .jpg

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date of birth: 1841-11-20
date of death: 1901-05-30
described by source: Svensk uppslagsbok

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Encyclopedic overview

Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt ( Dutch: [ˈvɪktɔr ˈtɔnt]; 20 November 1841 – 30 May 1901) 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 been adopted by a number of countries, including Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Fiji, 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.

Victor D’Hondt was an influential proponent of proportional representation in Belgium. He published several articles on proportional representation and was founding member of the Association Réformiste Belge pour l'Adoption de la Representation Proportionnelle in 1881. From 1885 he served as professor of civil and fiscal law at the University of Ghent. In 1896 he was awarded the title Officer in the Belgian Order of Leopold.

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