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Full Justified Representation under Hare and Droop Quotas in Polynomial Time

Computer Science and Game Theory 2026-08-05 v1

Abstract

I study Full Justified Representation (FJR) in approval-based multiwinner elections under both the Hare and Droop quota conventions. I introduce a descending-budget algorithm in which voters distribute their remaining budgets across their current representation gaps and candidates are purchased whenever the resulting offers cover a common price. With candidate price λH=n/k\lambda_H=n/k, the algorithm returns a Hare-FJR committee; with candidate price λD=n/(k+1)\lambda_D=n/(k+1), it returns a committee satisfying the more demanding Droop-FJR axiom of Casey and Elkind. The two guarantees share a historical-payment invariant and a terminal row--column accounting argument, while the Droop proof requires a new residual-budget argument when all kk paid seats are filled. Both variants are deterministic once the voter and candidate orders are fixed and use O(kmn)O(kmn) rational operations.

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@article{arxiv.2608.05417,
  title  = {Full Justified Representation under Hare and Droop Quotas in Polynomial Time},
  author = {Yizhou Ai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.05417},
  year   = {2026}
}

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