With 2M population, chamber might have 126 members
(this is according to the cube root rule)
perhaps 1 M vote in an election (65 percent turnout of the voters, likely about 1.2M)
(8000 votes cast per member)
list PR electoral threshold of 2 percent nation-wide would be 20,000
a SMD would have about 8,000 votes cast
(the winner might win with 2700 votes or 6000 votes)
A MMD of 10 members would have about 80,000 votes cast
Droop quota is about 7300.
This effective threshold is less than half of the votes marked by a 2 percent electoral threshold.
A MMD of 5 members would have about 40,000 votes cast.
Droop quota is about 6667.
That shows that as DM is reduced below 10, the effective threshold in the district actually becomes lower
(but mostly Droop quota is about the same, no matter what the DM is.)
Looking at a district with higher DM
A MMD of 20 members would have about 160,000 votes cast
Droop quota is about 7619, still considerably lower than 2 percent overall (20,000).
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