sentences:  So if there are 30 seats in the council, and a person votes Labor but writes in a personal vote to a person on the Conservative list, Labor gets 29/30 of a vote, while the Conservative list gets 1/30 of a vote.Quotients are determined by dividing the number of votes each party received by 1.4, then by 3, 5, 7, 9, and so on.The quotients are then ranked from largest to smallest.